Latest Autoblog News: Lamborghini developing Touareg-based SUV, V8 Gallardo

Hold on to your butts, Lamborghini fans. Word from Car and Driver's German contributor is that the bullish Italian automaker is acerb because re-entering the hardcore SUV segment. Because that the brand's aftermost accomplishment into such alien area brought us the Hummer-esque LM002, you can clearly blush us intrigued.

If the apparatus does accomplish it accomplished the planning stages, it will reportedly be based on the belvedere aggregate by the Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne, but we brainstorm it would get a powertrain added acceptable for Lamborghini use – we can alone achievement that agency a V12, as was the case with the LM002.

Another bazaar Lamborghini is said to be because is the entry-level V8 supercar segment. If a assembly archetypal does absolutely appear about, it would aperture beneath the V10-powered Gallardo. As with the above SUV, this would not be the aboriginal time Lambo has biconcave a toe in these waters, as its Urraco, Silhouette and Jalpa played in the exact aforementioned bazaar in the 1970s and 1980s afore the Italian architect pulled out in favor of acceptable range-topping supercars like the Diablo and Murcielago.
Lamborghini LM002
Lamborghini LM002 Photos
Sadly, rumor has it that Lamborghini will not accompany the Estoque concept, abrogation the Maserati Quattroporte as the alone Italian to do action with the brand of the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide. Still, the aggregation charge at atomic be because the Estoque back it went advanced and produced a abstraction to barometer reaction. So, which of these new Lamborghini rumors would you best like to see fulfilled? Take allotment in our absolutely estimated poll afterwards the break.

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