Iran Has Built A Copycat Lamborghini Murcielago With A Hyundai V6

An Iranian company has built an incredibly dodgy copy of the Lamborghini Murcielago SV, but admits it hasn’t done any actual testing…

An Iranian firm has reverse-engineered a Lamborghini Murcielago in an attempt to kick-start a domestic supercar industry. Only… we’re not sure you’d want to drive it yet.

Said by its makers to be a perfect copy of the original, just without the badges, its production involved disassembling an actual Murcielago and basically copying its homework. The chassis and mix of carbonfibre and composite plastic panels are supposedly interchangeable with the originals. The windscreen was originally a third-party item made for the Murcielago, but it got smashed and was replaced with a copy of the copy.

Only specialists and the original designers could tell the difference, according to Massoud Moradi, director of the project. Unless, perhaps, people look into the engine bay where there’s a 3.8-litre Hyundai V6 linked to a matching gearbox. The thinking is that this engine is easily serviceable across the safer areas of Iran, as opposed to a high-revving Italian V12.

The engine bay, naturally, can fit a V12 and the team behind it want to fit a V8 or a V10 to the next example. But we might have reached a slight problem in that the company spent “no time planning or testing the car.” By Moradi’s own admission they simply copied the original designs and now assume everything will be fine. Right, then.

The complete lack of speed testing is apparently down to Iran’s lack of usable infrastructure. To be fair, in the war-torn country there probably is a shortage of well-surfaced runways that aren’t being used by one military or another. Despite this, Moradi is sure the Murcielag-no will fly past 175mph.

Moradi’s ultimate aim is to start an Iranian supercar-building industry. If someone is mad enough to plough money into this venture then 50-100 knock-off Murcielagos could be built per year. The price hasn’t been announced, which, whichever way you slice it, isn’t terribly surprising.

Sources: RT.com, STnews via Carscoops

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Comments

BrownGumshoe

This is disgusting

10/16/2018 - 13:32 |
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Maybe

10/16/2018 - 13:36 |
4 | 0

Well the act of creating replica yes, but looking at it they did a heck of good job replicating it

10/16/2018 - 16:56 |
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Track Broseff

Maybe this is how all those people have expensive cars over there.
(Joke)

10/16/2018 - 13:35 |
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Elliot.J99

Quite an impressive feat for a first time Iranian company

10/16/2018 - 13:38 |
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I think it would be more impressive if the company put in the effort to drive it before selling it

10/16/2018 - 22:09 |
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this is nothing if youi have the money you can get people to make even a F1LM
(except for the carbon tub you have to make it from tube and cover it with carbon fiber to make it look like a real one)

10/20/2018 - 12:28 |
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Anonymous

What a ripoff they just dealed with chini though

10/16/2018 - 13:38 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Theres no logo even

10/16/2018 - 13:39 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

You might want to learn your history before badmouthing.

10/16/2018 - 15:49 |
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SAVAGE DOGG (Ping-Pong Gang) (Corvette Squad)

Holy shit
That actualy doesn’t look that bad…
Still, would question it because of the faded yellow paint

10/16/2018 - 13:39 |
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Nishant Dash

China:has a successful car industry
Iran: “Hm. Let’s see what they’re up to.”
T H I S

10/16/2018 - 13:41 |
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Weapons of mediocre destruction

10/16/2018 - 14:10 |
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Anonymous

Go bankrubt, go bankrubt, go bankrubt, go bankrubt. Plz Lamborghini sue this

10/16/2018 - 13:43 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Plzzzz just to wipe that “oh yeah baby i get much vagene now” smug look off that guy’s face

10/16/2018 - 15:52 |
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ThatWeirdGinger

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Seriously. Their Instagram has the word “Lamborghini” all over it. Definetely getting WAY sued.

10/16/2018 - 19:05 |
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Anonymous

Am I the only one who approves of this?

10/16/2018 - 13:58 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Me too

10/16/2018 - 14:12 |
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Tomislav Celić

Don’t give these guys hate. Rimac started out by making an electric BMW e30. Who knows with time, they might build their own supercar.

10/16/2018 - 14:05 |
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but isn’t this just a complete downgrade?

and who the hell would want a supercar with a Hyundai V6?

i remember some indian car company (DC or something) tried to make a supercar using a Renault V6 and i swear ricers sounded better than that

10/16/2018 - 14:08 |
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Tomislav Celić

CT would you like to give a statement on how the community part of the CT is locked from the web? You can’t access it unless you sign in, and you can’t register. If you are closing that part of the website atleast tell us. Thanks.

10/16/2018 - 14:22 |
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Well maybe there could be a certain explanation for this?

Maybe some new rule or something i dunno
though I’m not sure about the registration not being possible

Or a really glitchy glitch

10/16/2018 - 14:27 |
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CT right now lel

10/16/2018 - 14:37 |
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When I was using the web version before I noticed the search bar was different, maybe a layout change or a site glitch…

Probably a glitch lmao

10/16/2018 - 15:43 |
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They already have. It was to combat those bots that infested the site a couple months ago. They haven’t re opended it due to who knows why.

10/16/2018 - 17:18 |
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It’s always been like that

10/16/2018 - 20:36 |
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