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After his meeting with Ferrari about the problems he was having with the clutch, Lamborghini was so frustrated that he decided to build his own luxury sports car out of spite. According to Lamborghini that encounter made him want to prove a point. "This was the point when I finally decided to make a perfect car," he said. This is when he took his Ferrari automobile back to his tractor plant and started correcting all the problems he thought it had.

As time went by that year, he was approached by many engineers and he listened to them, but he was a mechanic himself, so he knew what to do. As he started retrofitting his own car, he discovered that he could use a lot of the same parts he used for his tractors. He started by putting a bigger clutch in and then switched the cylinder heads to twin cylinder heads he had designed for his tractors.

He would later find out that using his tractor parts to build high-performance sports cars would be extremely profitable. He could make three to four times as much money if he used parts that he had already designed. His engineers had already done most of the work and people were already asking him what he had done to his car to make it perform better, so he started his automobile manufacturing facility.

He listened to all the people who had owned other luxury cars and slowly started implementing those concerns into his first automobile design. He used the ideas that his engineers had about the twin cylinder heads and used that to design the first Lamborghini, which was the 350GT.

As his first automobile design started to take shape, he was looking for an emblem and name for the cars he would be building. Lamborghini would visit a local ranch that raised bulls for bullfighting owned by Don Eduardo Miura. He was so fascinated and impressed by the Miura bulls that he decided to use a raging bull for the emblem of his automobile company. He even went as far as naming the third car he produced the Lamborghini Miura.

By the time the fourth Lamborghini Miura automobile was built, Lamborghini asked Don Eduardo if he could unveil the new car at his bull ranch in Seville. Miura was so proud that Lamborghini named his cars after his family that he jumped at the chance. It started a relationship that would cause Lamborghini to continue to name most of his production cars after bulls and even today, you can find many of the models named after bulls or associated with bullfighting.

Throughout Lamborghini's life he always welcomed people into his office or home with grace and courtesy. He would listen to their ideas, concerns and then use them to create something. He believed that there was a lot of good ideas out there, but no one chose to find them and then perfect them. One reporter that interviewed him toward the end of his life stated, "Lamborghini is the nicest person I have ever met, I was surprised by that from a man of his stature and legend."

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