Lamborghini History Timeline: 1963 to 2025

Lamborghini is an Italian luxury supercar manufacturer founded in 1963 by tractor magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese, born from a personal r…

Ferruccio Lamborghini Founds Automobili Lamborghini After Legendary Ferrari Feud

On 30 October 1963, Ferruccio Lamborghini — already a millionaire from his Lamborghini Trattori tractor business — registered Automobili Lamborghini SpA in Sant'Agata Bo…

Lamborghini 350 GTV Prototype Unveiled at the 1963 Turin Motor Show

Just days after the company's registration, Ferruccio unveiled the 350 GTV prototype at the Turin Motor Show in November 1963, shocking the Italian automotive establishm…

Lamborghini Miura Redefines the Supercar with Mid-Engine Layout at Geneva 1966

When the Miura chassis was displayed at the 1965 Turin Show — with the body unveiled at Geneva in March 1966 — it fundamentally altered what a road car could be. Designe…

Lamborghini Countach LP400 Enters Production as the Definitive Poster Car

First shown as a concept at Geneva in 1971 — where onlookers reportedly exclaimed 'Countach!' (a Piedmontese expression of astonishment) — the LP400 entered production i…

Lamborghini Files for Bankruptcy Amid 1970s Oil Crisis and Ownership Chaos

Ferruccio Lamborghini had sold his stake in the company in 1972, first to Swiss businessmen Georges-Henri Rossetti and René Leimer, and then through a succession of trou…

Chrysler Corporation Acquires Lamborghini, Injecting Capital and Engineering Re…

After a brief ownership by brothers Jean-Claude and Patrick Mimran — who had stabilised the company and launched the Jalpa and LM002 off-roader — Chrysler Corporation ac…

Audi AG Acquires Lamborghini for $110 Million, Beginning the Modern Era

In July 1998, Audi AG — a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group — acquired Lamborghini from the Indonesian Sedtco Group for a reported $110 million, marking the most conseq…

Lamborghini Gallardo Launches as the Brand's First High-Volume 'Entry-Level' Su…

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in 2003, the Gallardo was the first Lamborghini designed for significantly higher production volumes — eventually reaching over 14,022…

Lamborghini Urus SUV Concept Unveiled, Signalling the Brand's Most Radical Pivot

At the Beijing Motor Show in April 2012, Lamborghini unveiled the Urus concept, proposing something that would have seemed heretical a decade earlier: a four-door, five-…

Lamborghini India Records Consecutive Sales Records as Ultra-Luxury Market Expa…

Lamborghini India, operating through its importer Exclusive Motors, recorded its best-ever sales figures in 2019, with deliveries crossing 50 units for the year — a mile…

Lamborghini Revuelto Debuts as the World's First V12 Plug-In Hybrid Supercar

On 29 March 2023, Lamborghini unveiled the Revuelto — the successor to the Aventador and the most technologically complex car in the brand's 60-year history. It pairs a…

Lamborghini Completes Electrification of Entire Model Range Under Direzione Cor…

By mid-2025, Lamborghini had fulfilled its Direzione Cor Tauri electrification roadmap ahead of schedule, with every model in the lineup — Revuelto, Huracán successor Te…