Lamborghini Is Planning A Semi-Off-Road Huracan And We've Never Been So Conflicted

Lamborghini good, SUVs bad. Huracan good, big wheels on dirt tracks bad. A Huracan with height-adjustable suspension and bash plates? Well, we just don't know what to feel
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.

Lamborghini Is Planning A Semi-Off-Road Huracan And We've Never Been So Conflicted

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.

Lamborghini Is Planning A Semi-Off-Road Huracan And We've Never Been So Conflicted

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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Anonymous

How about that

08/27/2017 - 18:15 |
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DJ N

Lol putting machine guns on top would be a very GTAV thing. I don’t mind it, but it certainly is very strange and, erm, unaccustom-ing thing to see from the Italian supercar builder.

08/28/2017 - 03:20 |
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𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚 𝙉&#x1D

What? I’ve made a whole fleet of off road Lambos in Forza!

08/28/2017 - 05:09 |
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Anonymous

“…and the V10 diesel engine from the old Q7”
But wasn’t the V10 diesel for the Touareg only? I thought the old Q7 only got the 6.0 V12 TDI.

08/28/2017 - 08:11 |
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Anonymous

Lamborghini employees play too much “The Crew”

08/28/2017 - 10:49 |
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Ohohoho yea…. time to take my very expensive dune buggy offroading…… See how cruel Mother Nature can be to this car

10/13/2017 - 12:58 |
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Alex Shutt/SHUTTMAN

First a ridiculous lambo Prius and now an off road lambo? Stop…please…stop…go back to crazy wall poster cars lambo…

11/07/2017 - 19:09 |
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