Lamborghini V12

The Lamborghini V12 is the flagship twelve-cylinder engine of Lamborghini, built in three generations that were all developed in-house. The first generation was a sixty degree petrol V12 that Ferruccio Lamborghini commissioned from Giotto Bizzarrini when he set out to compete with Ferrari, and it was the first internal combustion engine the company ever produced. It entered production in 1963 as a 3.5 litre unit in the 350GT and was designed from the start with four camshafts, an intentional contrast to the single camshaft per bank of the Ferrari V12. Over almost fifty years it grew to 6.5 litres, gaining four-valve heads, electronic fuel injection and dry sump lubrication, and its service ended with the Murcielago LP 670-4 SuperVeloce before an all-new V12 arrived in the 2011 Aventador. Audi, part of Volkswagen Group, bought Lamborghini in 1998.