Lamborghini CEO sees another record year for 2017
By Bloomberg
05 December 2017 |
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Stefano Domenicali, chief executive officer at Lamborghini, discusses the company's new $200,000 Urus SUV, being on pace for a record year in 2017, and seeing "big growth" in the U.K.
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