{"id":31452,"date":"2018-12-28T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autocarmalaysia.com\/?p=31452"},"modified":"2019-01-01T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:59:44","slug":"my-other-lambos-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autocarmalaysia.com\/prepro\/2018\/12\/28\/my-other-lambos-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"My Other Lambo\u2019s A Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may know that some tractors are Lamborghinis, but others have close links to Porsche and Aston<\/em>. John Evans<\/b> swaps track day for tractor day and drives them<\/em>
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Ciro Ciampi owns two Lamborghinis. One is yellow and powered by a V10 that screams like an excited child. The other is orange and propelled by a two-cylinder diesel that chunters like an old man.<\/p>\n

More than five decades of engineering and company evolution separate Ciro\u2019s yellow Gallardo from his orange DC25 tractor. They sit awkwardly together on the gravel drive at his smart hotel, the tractor looking a bit like company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini regarding a spoilt grandchild. Nevertheless, their different personalities aside, these two generations of Lamborghini still have a few things in common.<\/p>\n

Their shocking colours, obviously, but also the quality of their designs; the Gallardo\u2019s full of drama but the tractor is, despite its humble purpose, beautifully proportioned.<\/p>\n

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It has a high and heavy clutch but sheer adrenaline enables me to let it out slowly<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn\u2019t have me down as a tractor fancier, either, but that\u2019s what a day at Tractor Fest does for you. It was held in June, some weeks prior to my meeting with Ciro and his Lamborghinis, in the grounds of Newby Hall, near Ripon. Around 750 tractors plus 70 more \u201ctwo-cylinder, odd balls and orphan tractors\u201d (the exhibitor\u2019s description) turned out.<\/p>\n

They were interesting but I\u2019d come to find some special car-related tractors; not your usual Fiat, Ford, Renault and Leyland fare, of which there were many, but more exotic; namely Porsche, Lamborghini, David Brown \u2013 and Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Ferrari? Unfortunately, I\u2019d got it into my head that Ferrari once made tractors; a bit like Enzo getting his own back on Ferruccio by walking into his office and telling him he could build a better muck spreader.<\/p>\n