Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was born on 20th February 1898, to Adalgisa and Alredo, who ran a small business which supplied the Italian national railway. Ferrari was bitten by the racing bug at the age of 10, when his father took him to watch a motor car race in Bologna.
Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was born on April 28 1916, a child to two viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini in Renazzo di Cento, in the Province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Nothern Italy. At a very early age, he decided he wanted to do something with mechanics, and began working on his father’s tractor out of interest and later on joined a technical school in Bologna.
Nils Ivar Bohlin was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor responsible for the three-point lap and shoulder seat belt – considered one of the most important innovations in automobile safety which is now a standard safety feature in all cars. He invented the safety belt while working at AB Volvo.
Jozef Kaban is a Slovak automobile designer. He was born on January 4th 1973 in Vavrečka, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Kaban completed a degree in Industrial Design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design located in Bratislava,
The world’s first-ever road trip commenced in the August of 1888. The drive covered a distance of 105 kilometers between 2 cities in Germany, Manheim to Pforzheim. Pforzheim is the birthplace of Mrs. Bertha Benz; the driver behind the wheel of the world’s first-ever Motorwagen.
