Lamborghini Is Planning A Semi-Off-Road Huracan And We've Never Been So Conflicted
If ever any news story should leave you totally unsure of how to feel, this is it. Lamborghini is rumoured to be planning a semi-off-roader based on the Huracan, with height-adjustable suspension, chunkier wheel arches and under-body bash plates.
You got it: the project is essentially a Lamborghini rallycross legend in the making. Sort of. Maybe. Either way, it’s possibly the most emotionally confusing thing ever to come out of Sant’Agata, but we bet it would look fantastic with a big machine gun on top. Well-heeled preppers have probably already placed their orders.
Putting the ‘sports’ firmly into SUV, the ‘Huracan Safari’ idea comes from the Audi Nanuk concept of 2013, which had adjustable air suspension for a 70mm variance in ride height… and the V10 diesel engine from the old Q7. The idea wouldn’t be to create a proper off-roader, but a sports car that could also be used in the parts of Italy where the roads were last surfaced in the 1960s.
Naturally it will be four-wheel drive, and you have to expect that higher-profile tyres would be essential. Even light off-roading on 35-section tyres would be agonising. We don’t have any indication as to whether the Huracan’s high-revving V10 petrol engine would remain, or whether – brace for impact – they might consider loading it with a big diesel like the Nanuk, but we’d suspect the former.
On one hand this feels so woefully contrived that we feel slightly sick about it, but on the other hand it could be an absolutely epic adventure road trip-mobile. We’ll let you know when we’ve decided how we feel…
Source: Automobile
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That means it’ll actually be able to drive in the UK now 😂
I’m all for it. It’s basically Lamborghini making a street legal group B rally car.
This could be the start to something beautiful.
Why do car companies always take influence from Forza Horizon? Last time this happened a car company made an AWD, V12 Twin Turbo car. If that doesn’t scream Forza I don’t know what does…
Do you mean M760Li xDrive ?
Lamborghini has been playing too much forza horizon……
Now we can play Forza Horizon 2 in real life
I see that somone got fired from forza and was hired at lamborghini
Ok…..
Stradman will be excited
Well done to whoever came up with the idea at Lamborghini,every car manufacturer should have at least a team of daydreamers to look up those really extreme renders like the F150/Tyrell F1 thing to get insipiration