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TIL:Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of Lamborghini started off by manufacturing tractors. He bought a Ferrari once and after finding the clutch to be ‘inferior’ he went to Enzo Ferrari to ask for a better one. He was dismissed as a ‘Tractor maker’. Ferruccio decided to start off his own car company.

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