“Pic of the Week”, December 13, 2013. Lamborghini spotted in a French village!

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I’d always thought of Lamborghini as a company that crafted upscale Italian luxury sport cars.  In my wildest dreams I never imagined they were manufacturers of farm equipment.

So I was very surprised late one afternoon while strolling through the medieval village of Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud in France’s lovely Loire Valley, to come across this tractor in a farm yard at the outskirts of the town which bore the very distinctive Lamborghini trademark.  Could it really be that Lamborghini had to abandon cars and start making tractors?  Looking at the evidence in front of my eyes the answer seemed obvious but I needed to know a little more. 

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