[HN Gopher] Behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry
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Behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry
Author : mhb
Score : 46 points
Date : 2022-06-06 11:48 UTC (1 days ago)
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| iancmceachern wrote:
| It's a story as old as time.
|
| You can choose to work together, or not.
| fosk wrote:
| Buy a Ferrari if you want to race, buy a Lamborghini if you want
| to shop on Rodeo drive.
| short_sells_poo wrote:
| Modern Ferraris are amazing driver's cars. To this day, the
| single best driving experience I've ever had was in a 458
| Speciale. There are better engineered cars, there are faster
| cars, there are more comfortable cars, but this to me is the
| embodiment of what a car can do. It is just an amazing feeling
| to drive it. It's like using a precision instrument that
| somehow immediately becomes an extension of your body. It's
| really uncanny.
|
| None of the Lamborghini's I was fortunate enough to drive came
| close to this.
| WalterBright wrote:
| Ferrari got rid of the gearshift :-(
| troelsSteegin wrote:
| "Let me make cars. You stick to making tractors." - Enzo Ferrari
| to Ferruccio Lamborghini. That's got to be an all time top 10
| customer support fail. But, after that, it's how many owners for
| Lamborghini the car company, until AUDI AG? Maybe tractors are
| not so bad.
|
| The wonder for me is the meanings of the names of the different
| models. "Countach" apparently sounds like "wow" in Italian.
| "Diablo", ok. Gallardo is after a fighting bull. Aventador is
| after another fighting bull. Urus, after aurochs, really big bull
| predecessors. Murcielago is bat, but maybe that's bull bats.
| tdido wrote:
| El Diablo and Murcielago were also fighting bulls.
| caycep wrote:
| granted, I feel like sometimes, snobby customer service is a
| feature/"experience" and not a bug for certain classes of
| Veblen goods!
| ffhhj wrote:
| > "Let me make cars. You stick to making tractors." - Enzo
| Ferrari to Ferruccio Lamborghini. That's got to be an all time
| top 10 customer support fail.
|
| In these days of automated responses I'd be happy with such
| answer, instead of a request for ID and a delay of weeks to let
| me know they are reviewing the case.
| pmontra wrote:
| > The name "Countach"? It is pronounced coon-tasch and simply
| means "wow" in Italian.
|
| In the dialect of the place, not in Italian (I'm Italian.) I
| learned the origin of the name a few years ago. I always thought
| it was an English word or something and always mispronounced it.
| inferiorhuman wrote:
| What I'd heard is that "countach" is the sort of expletive
| you'd say when you saw a beautiful woman. Although to be fair
| using regional slang makes some sense as the Countach dates to
| around the time that Italy was transitioning to Standard
| Italian.
| bozhark wrote:
| That's sounds like some Americanized Italian cunt.
|
| So, with a mustache
| barry-cotter wrote:
| > Although to be fair using regional slang makes some sense
| as the Countach dates to around the time that Italy was
| transitioning to Standard Italian.
|
| ? Tuscan was the written standard for Italian since Petrarch
| and the Piedmontese conquest of Southern Italy was done by
| 1871. Admittedly colonization took a long time but it's a
| very long time since anything but Tuscan has been used in
| official or prestige circumstances in Italian.
| joebob42 wrote:
| I'm surprised how few cars this is in total. It's kind of cool
| the brand has such a big impact with only low thousands of cars.
| blocked_again wrote:
| Lamborghinis are ERC721s. Toyotos are ERC20s.
| legitster wrote:
| There is a version of the story here where Enzo is not wrong.
|
| His #1 focus was building cars that won races. He was clear about
| that. And people bought his car because they won races.
| Lamborghini made amazing cars... that did not win many races.
|
| There are not many accounts of Enzo being a likeable person, or a
| great engineer, or even a particularly good business man. But it
| wasn't a "mistake" how he treated Ferruccio's ideas.
|
| So, maybe the moral of the story is listen to your customers. But
| it could also be: don't compromise and you'll still do fine, and
| they will go out and make what they want.
| caycep wrote:
| It depends on the culture perhaps. "not invented here syndrome"
| often practiced by many tech companies.
|
| Granted, as an aside, my understanding is the 250 GTO line of
| models were meant as an afterthought to fund the racing side of
| things, but to my eye, they are the most beautiful Ferrari
| models. The supercar/racing inspired models often look ugly to
| me.
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