LITTLE WHITE BULL

When Ferruccio Lamborghini established Automobili Lamborghini in the autumn of 1962, he knew exactly what he wanted. The new factory was to be built in record time (it opened in 1963!), and his sports cars should be the most dreamed about in the world. In setting himself this challenge, the already successful entrepreneur spared no expense: he hired the best men, personally hand-picked from among the most promising young talents. His engineers Giampaolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani (fresh from university) and Giotto Bizzarrini (yes, the Giotto Bizzarrini, as a consultant), plus test driver Bob Wallace, were the young heart of the new factory and all shared their boss’s vision. So when Lamborghini unveiled the Miura in 1966, the car world immediately understood that he had hit his second target and, from that moment on, his cars would be revered the world over.

A wise entrepreneur, however, knows that he can’t rest on his laurels. Even when the factory was flooded with Miura orders, Ferruccio knew that a single 12-cylinder model wouldn’t sustain the company long-term, and assigned his technical team the task of developing a smaller sibling. The one-off Marzal of 1967, designed for Carrozzeria Bertone by the same young and talented Marcello Gandini who’d fathered the Miura, was the first