13. …And Pagani Has Lamborghini to Thank
If it wasn’t for Lamborghini and carbon fiber, we wouldn’t have the ultra-exotic automaker Pagani. In the 1980s, Horacio Pagani was an engineer at Lamborghini who was always looking ahead for the next big design breakthrough. He had been looking into carbon fiber as a building material and even mentioned it to the bosses at Lamborghini – all to no avail. He then produced a carbon fiber and aluminium Countach which weighed over 1000lbs less than a standard Countach. The brass were still not sold. In 1987, Ferrari unveiled the F40, a supercar which utilized carbon fiber. That was the final straw for Pagani, who decided that if he was to pursue his dream of building ultra-light-weight cars he would have to leave and start his own car company.
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