Lambo SUV

Nice find. I think this makes more sense than maser/jeep suv. At least lambo has history with cheeta. This will prob be built off cayenne as will proposed bentley suv. Cant help but build what people want to buy

 

Oh Noooo....

Not another soccer moms' SUV.

Why don't they just remake the old LM002 with an LP640 engine. That is cool and low-cost for Lambo.

 

Looks pretty good actually..anyone care to translate the article?
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Here's the problem....Lamborghini can 't stop humping that frontend or the dated stealth image. The rear is marginal as is with the aventador's.
They are not sucussful in graphing old school queues with their modern designs.

Take for instance another era: In 1972, we had the Espada, Jarama, Urraco, Miura with the Countach around the corner.......NONE of these cars looked alike or carried queues from the other.

 

+1...finally someone with some common sense

 

Hear, hear!!
One look at these images seems to indicate that Lamborghini is following the path Porsche has taken, i.e. the laziest of design departments. (To paraphrase Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear).
It's not that the car is particularly ugly, (in my opinion), but it just looks way too much like someone has taken the Aventador, Estoque, Gallardo and manipulated them on a computer into this.
Where's the originality?
A few years back there was talk of a replacement LM002 which had a forward sloping front screen. It was pig ugly, (although the '002 has a face only a mother could love), but at least it was a little bit more original. Ditto for a yellow '002 replacement idea that also appeared on this site a few years back.
Yes, there are family traits that are visible in both designs, but they are also different enough to not look like someone squeezed an Aventador into a jelly-mould.
Lamborghini has a history of radical and space-age designs. I hope the effort above isn't a portent of things to come.
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WOW! That Espada, I don't think I've seen before. Please post more of it.
Aside from the Gallardo lights, that is a cool car.

 

Unfortunately it looks like the market for people wanting to one-up their neighbor in the school parking lot or at the grocery store is larger that the one for people wanting an exotic vehicle for off road use. Boring accountants, god love 'em, are to blame for this. "I thought I had Mono once, turned out I was an accountant". Check out this $500,000.00 creation. It's got AC, leather, 600 HP and Lamborghini yellow paint. now this is cool.
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Pictures are very interesting, usually Quattroruote does good renders not far from real

It claims 700 hp and the use of aluminium and carbon fiber to minimize weight (expected less than 2000 kg-4400 lbs). Car is expected within 3 years. Internal project code: LB736. They will not build Estoque, this says the article.

Here below the full article with page 12: V8 Twin Turbo + Hybrid for the production (prototype with Gallardo V10 + Hybrid)


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I've only got one other picture in my files, but here it is.

I have to admit, I would prefer this to the 4x4 posted at the start of this thread.

If the Estoque isn't put into production, and the 4x4 is, then that would be a shame IMO. Apart from the heavy front end of the Estoque I didn't think it looked too bad at all.
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Shame. I'd rather have the Estoque...SUV the Maserati looks good and the Bentley one too. I'd probably have the Bentley SUV instead of the Lamborghini one if the choice was mine.

 

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120201/CARNEWS/120209992?utm_source=DailyDrive20120201&utm_medium=enewsletter&utm_term=article1&utm_content=20120201-Lamborghini_SUV_confirmed&utm_campaign=awdailydrive


By: Greg Kable on 2/01/2012



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A senior source at Lamborghini's parent company Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany, has confirmed reports suggesting that the Italian supercar maker is close to revealing a dramatically styled and luxuriously equipped SUV/crossover concept that previews its long-touted third model.

"I can't comment in detail but the speculation in the press is largely correct," an Audi manager revealed when questioned about reports outlining plans by Lamborghini to gauge public response to a successor to the famed LM002 with a new SUV concept.

Set to get its first public airing at the Beijing motor show in late April, the new SUV/crossover will extend the current Lamborghini lineup, joining the successor to today's Gallardo and the recently introduced Aventador in what will at least be a three-strong model lineup from Sant'Agata from 2016 onward. Lamborghini has not confirmed the reports.

An unprecedented fourth model--a low-slung four-door sedan previewed by the well-received Estoque concept first wheeled out at the 2008 Paris motor show--is also under consideration and, in the words of Autoweek's Ingolstadt sources, "shouldn't be ruled out as a further addition to the lineup should studies reveal there is a market for such a car."

Conceived as an upmarket rival for the likes of the Maserati Kubang, the BMW X6 and a similar four-door coupelike off-roader recently confirmed by Mercedes-Benz and likely to be called the MLC, the new Lamborghini SUV was conceived to sell in numbers of less than 1,500 annually, suggesting its price will be upwards of $200,000 in North America. Key markets for the new performance-orientated four-wheel drive are expected to be the United States and China.

Nothing is official at this early stage, but suggestions are that the 197-inch-long four-seater will go on sale with a detuned version of the Gallardo's 5.2-liter V10 engine developing in the region of 580 hp. Also envisaged is a hybrid version of the big four-wheel drive. It is said to combine the standard V10 with a 107-hp (80-kilowatt) electric motor and a lithium-ion battery pack, providing a system output of somewhere near 660 hp.

Rumors suggesting that the successor to the LM002 could also be offered with a specially tuned version of Audi's new twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 and/or a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V12 common-rail diesel have been indirectly denied by Lamborghini chairman Stefan Winkelmann, who says Lamborghini will not adopt turbocharged engines of any kind this decade.

Known under the internal code name LB736, the new Lamborghini SUV/crossover is planned to share its underpinnings with the next-generation Audi Q7, which is also set to provide the basis for a new Bentley off-roader. The so-called MLB architecture will, in short-wheelbase form, also sit beneath successors to today's Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg.

Already undergoing intensive development at Audi, the future MLB structure is planned to undergo a dramatic weight-reduction program, with Ingolstadt officials suggesting savings of up to 880 pounds for the Q7 through the use of added aluminum and carbon fiber. The high-tech construction will be picked up by Lamborghini to ensure that its new SUV/crossover comes in at less than 4,400 pounds.

As with the current Q7, Cayenne and Touareg, the Lamborghini SUV is expected to be partly produced at the Volkswagen Group's factory in Bratislava, Slovakia, with final assembly taking place at Lamborghini's Sant'Agata plant near Modena, Italy.


Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120201/CARNEWS/120209992#ixzz1l9r5oqvu

 

Crap.
Just as I feared. X5-X6 wannabe.
Another Soccer Mom's SUV.
Not a real 4x4 like the original LM002

NOT a good news

 

The latest in a long line of boring concepts from Lamborghini, nothing to see here.