Automobili Lamborghini Achieves Record-Breaking Results in 2024
Luxury carmaker delivers historic revenues, record global sales, and robust profitability amid ambitious product transformation.
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Luxury car manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini has posted its strongest-ever financial results, achieving record-breaking revenues of €3.09 billion in 2024, surpassing the €3 billion threshold for the first time in the company’s history.
Operating income also reached an all-time high of €835 million, reflecting a 15.5% increase over the previous year, while maintaining an impressive operating margin of 27%.
Global sales saw significant growth, with Lamborghini delivering 10,687 cars in 2024, a 5.7% increase year-over-year. This growth was consistent across key markets in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions, highlighting the global strength of the Lamborghini brand despite challenging market conditions.
Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann attributed the company’s success to the strategic renewal of its product range and the strength of its team. “Evolving the entire product range while continuing to grow: this is how we can summarize another record year for Automobili Lamborghini,” Winkelmann said. “We are confident and determined as we embrace the next challenges in the sector, continuing to combine performance, exclusivity, and innovation.”
The record results reflect an intense 18-month transformation period, marked by the introduction of three new models. The launch of the Revuelto—the first V12 High Performance Electrified Vehicle (HPEV)—combined Lamborghini’s iconic heritage with advanced hybrid technology. Additionally, the new Urus SE elevated the Super SUV segment, introducing cutting-edge innovations in technology, efficiency, and performance. Lamborghini also introduced the Temerario at the prestigious Monterey Car Week, embodying the brand’s uncompromising spirit and design ethos.
Paolo Poma, Managing Director and CFO, emphasized Lamborghini’s commitment to sustainable growth and innovation. “Our goal remains achieving sustainable growth from both financial and environmental perspectives, creating lasting value for all stakeholders,” said Poma.
The company’s ongoing success has boosted employment significantly, with 1,000 new employees joining the workforce over the past two years, representing a 30% increase. This expansion is supported by Lamborghini’s most substantial investment plan ever, designed to modernize production, enhance manufacturing capabilities, and improve the sustainability of the company’s industrial ecosystem.
Automobili Lamborghini remains a significant contributor to Italy’s economy, reinforcing the global prestige of Made in Italy through a commitment to exclusivity, craftsmanship, and technological innovation. With these strong results, Lamborghini is poised for further growth and continued excellence in the luxury automotive industry.
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Elon Musk is exploring a potential merger between Tesla and SpaceX, a deal that could reshape the future of AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles and space technology. With a combined valuation potentially reaching $3.5 trillion, the move could bring Musk’s vision of an interconnected technology ecosystem closer to reality, although a deal remains uncertain.
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Elon Musk has engineered ties between Tesla TSLA 3.41%increase; up pointing triangle and SpaceX SPCX 7.79%increase; up pointing triangle that are hard to break, and now he wants to fuse them together permanently.
Musk has run both Tesla and SpaceX concurrently over the past two decades, using a schedule that dictated which days he spent focused on each business.
The companies have often shared resources and personnel, signaling their close ties. Last year, SpaceX looked into creating a spacesuit for Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus, a person familiar with the matter said. Tesla last week showed off its new Roadster, a vehicle featuring SpaceX rocket thrusters that it hopes to soon bring to market.
And in recent months, Musk has repositioned both companies by expanding beyond their core operations toward a shared mission centered on artificial intelligence.
The world’s richest man on Tuesday signaled his interest in tying up SpaceX and Tesla, marking what would be the biggest corporate merger of all time. Because he serves as chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, Musk said committees of independent directors at both companies are evaluating a possible deal, adding that a transaction might not come to fruition.
The committees will likely evaluate, with lawyers and bankers, how each company would fare in a potential deal and how a deal might best be structured. They then present their conclusions to their respective boards, who typically vote on whether to proceed.
“It’s an odd Kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking and I can’t be in the conversation,” Musk told SpaceX investors on Tuesday in response to an analyst’s question about a potential deal.
For Musk, the merger supports his vision of a world full of autonomous cars, humanoid robots and weekly rocket launches, as well as the data centers and satellites required to keep the whole thing running.
Some investors and analysts said they expect a transaction would be structured as an all-stock deal, with SpaceX potentially paying a modest premium for Tesla shares.
SpaceX, which has a market value of about $2 trillion, said it is seeing sharp growth in revenue across its businesses, which include operating data centers, launching rockets and operating satellite networks such as the internet service Starlink. Tesla is valued at about $1.5 trillion and is expanding its operations beyond its automotive and energy business. Shares in both companies traded higher following the news Tuesday.
Musk’s substantial ownership stakes in both companies, along with voting control at SpaceX, has enabled him to set the deal in motion. Analysts and investors said the deal will probably face regulatory scrutiny internationally, though some see Musk’s close relationship with the Trump administration as an asset to getting approval.
Blurred lines
The companies haven’t said which directors are on the special committees evaluating a potential deal. Several SpaceX and Tesla board members have either personal or business ties to Musk. And like Musk, venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis sits on both boards.
In a filing this week, Tesla outlined millions of dollars in business agreements with SpaceX and its subsidiaries last year, including $143 million in car sales to SpaceX, $3.3 million in advertising that it bought on the social-media platform X and $430 million in revenue from the sale of Megapack batteries for SpaceX’s data centers.
The companies also split the cost of resources including the use of Musk’s SpaceX jet and the bill for his personal security, which he runs through a private company.
Employees at both companies routinely move between companies to work on special projects, and some executives have dual roles, including Charles Kuehmann, vice president of materials engineering at both SpaceX and Tesla, and Ashok Elluswamy, the vice president of AI software at Tesla who runs a joint venture with SpaceX called Digital Optimus.
Over the years, Musk has launched new startups within his empire, including brain-implant company Neuralink, underground-tunnel developer the Boring Company and xAI, the AI startup that merged with SpaceX in February.
It is that AI business that Musk thinks can serve a market worth tens of trillions of dollars, justifying the need for a merger.
The business case goes like this: Tesla is developing robotaxis and robots, which it calls “physical AI.” SpaceX is working on the back end of physical AI: the data-center capacity and internet connection required for those robotaxis and robots to operate continuously.
“I don’t see what the value of Tesla is if it’s not merged with SpaceX,” said investment adviser Ross Gerber, a former Tesla bull turned critic invested in both companies. “If they don’t merge, the brains of everything that runs Tesla is owned by another company.”
On top of it all, both companies face constraints on the supply chains they need to make this world a reality, particularly when it comes to chips. To address this, Musk earlier this year announced a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and Intel to design and manufacture chips in Texas. “The most epic chip-building exercise by far,” he has said.
Musk at the wheel
For Musk, a merger would also solve two problems: demands on his attention and his lack of control at Tesla.
Tesla for years was Musk’s only public company, a status that came with greater scrutiny. There, Musk reports to a public board, as well as individual investors who make up around 30% of Tesla’s voting power, according to FactSet.
The question of Musk’s attention became a particular focus for investors and the board in recent years after he acquired Twitter in 2022 and launched xAI in 2023, and again in 2025 as he spent time in Washington, D.C., running the Department of Government Efficiency in the early months of President Trump’s second term.
As Tesla’s car business suffered in 2025, Musk threatened to take his AI ambitions outside the company if he wasn’t granted 25% voting control. Last November, Tesla shareholders approved a new pay package for Musk, which created a path for him to vastly expand his stake.
As of Sept. 30, Musk owned a roughly 20% stake in Tesla, according to the company’s proxy filing.
The SpaceX IPO gave Musk a different path. When SpaceX went public in June, the deal’s structure enabled him to have more than 80% voting power at the company—so much that he can’t be fired and decisions can’t be made without his support.
If SpaceX acquires Tesla, he will likely stay in control.
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