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

Matt Kimberley

25 Aug 2017

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

Comments

Its the Mega Track all over again

Sounds good to me!

It’s not a bad idea, but the Huracán isn’t the best hyper/supercar that could receive this treatment. I would rather see a Cayman or a GT-R to be upgraded in this style of fashion.

their idea remind me of this

Lamborghini LM003 maybe?

Where is timetraveling when you need it. I don’t care if to the future or to the past, just no more stupid SUVs please

This is not an SUV. This is like a mid engine Lamborghini Audi Quattro. Adding offload abilities to sports/supercars to make offroad machines instead of striping offroaders off their offroad capabilities to make “sporty” lifted coupe-ish minivans. This is how god intended it to be.