Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring from Italy.
One of the most beautiful and expensive cars ever made is being sold all over the world by a woman. Marisa Baldessari, a former opera singer and language scholar, is now, at the age of twenty-six, sales manager for Ferruccio Lamborghini, whose new £5,000 two-seater Miura is more luxurious than a Lagonda and faster than a Ferrari.
At the Turin Motor Show and at her home in Bologna Wheelbase looks at the life of the lady from Lamborghini who has won her way to the top in a salesman's world.
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