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  • - [Announcer] Ferrari.

  • Lamborghini.

  • Simply the ultimate in vehicular luxury, right?

  • Well, in Italy, Lamborghini started out associated

  • with tractors.

  • So how did Lamborghini evolve from tilling the fields

  • of Bologna to becoming one of the top luxury brands

  • on the planet?

  • Through a personal insult delivered by this man.

  • Mr. Ferrari himself.

  • - Ferruccio Lamborghini was a real man with real skills.

  • As an Italian Air Force mechanic during World War II,

  • he set up a little auto repair shop in Northern Italy,

  • buying surplus military machines

  • and converting them into tractors.

  • He made a lot of money.

  • - So much money

  • that he could finally afford a Ferrari 250 GT,

  • a true sign that he had made it.

  • (car engine roaring)

  • But there was a problem.

  • So he took a trip to visit Enzo Ferrari himself to complain.

  • Ferrari, notorious for writing off his customers,

  • threw shade at the tycoon tractor maker,

  • exclaiming, "The problem is not with the car,

  • but with the driver.

  • Go focus on your tractors."

  • Game on.

  • Lamborghini was furious about Ferrari's fiery affront

  • and decided to build his own car,

  • just to spite him.

  • Lamborghini poached a few of Ferrari's ex-employees

  • and told them to get to work on beating their former boss

  • at his own game.

  • The team succeeded,

  • with the result being the Lamborghini 350 GT.

  • And the rest is history.

  • - (speaks in foreign language)

  • - I already said that.

- [Announcer] Ferrari.

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