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Sep 20, 2023

2024 Lotus Eletre VS Lamborghini Urus: A Duel of Power and Prestige

“Simplify, then add lightness.” This quote is attributed to Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars. This philosophy guided the company for years, leading to the creation of some of the world’s finest and lightest sports cars. However, their latest offering, the Lotus Eletre, deviates from this established principle. The Eletre is so unique that…

Jan 2, 2013

1986-1992 Lamborghini LM002

A first careful attempt at creating an off-road vehicle wearing the Raging Bull logo was the Cheetah back in 1977, although not built at the factory in Sant’Agata but in the United States, it was still the first of its kind to wear the Lamborghini logo, sadly this project was halted early on in the…

Jan 1, 2012

Lamborghini LM002 Paris Dakar – Guide

It was made quite clear right from the start Ferruccio Lamborghini had absolutely no intention in taking any of his Raging Bull onto the race track, he didn’t want to spend money on preparing a competition model, do note however some private teams used cars like the Islero and Miura on the track, but with…

Jan 1, 2012

1977 Lamborghini Cheetah

The first off-road car that was related to Lamborghini without being a tractor, was the 1977 Cheetah, starting out as an attempt to get a contract from the US military to buy it in large numbers, the Cheetah was designed by Rodney Pharis, president of US based defense contractor Mobility Technology International, or MTI, who…

Apr 26, 2010

Lamborghini LM004 7000 – Guide

The idea of a multi-purpose Lamborghini was taken one step further with the enormous LM-004. The car was built around the same chassis as the LMA-002, but went much further, the engine wasn’t the ‘normal’ 4754 cc unit (factory designation number L 503), but an all new 7.0-Litre one. This new engine was designed by Alfrieri…

Apr 26, 2010

Lamborghini LM002 Estate – Guide

The impressive Lamborghini LM002 V12 off road mammoth never managed to reach its full potential, initially it was developed for military use as the Cheetah, but that project didn’t work out quite the way Lamborghini intended it things went from bad to worse and the company almost collapsed but the Raging Bull managed to survive…

Apr 25, 2010

Lamborghini LMA002 – Guide

The LMA-002 (with the ‘A’ for Antiore) was the logical follow up of the LM-001, because on the latter one, the engine was in the back, its road holding was terrible, but on the LMA-002 the engine was moved to the front. This time it was a Lamborghini V-12, very much like the unit used…

Apr 15, 2010

Lamborghini LM001

After the Cheetah was sent back to the United States in late 1977 the option of adding an off-road model to the lineup at Lamborghini kept lurking in the back of their heads, and three years later, in 1981 the Geneva Auto Show was the scene for an evolution of the idea in the shape…