Tuesday 26th July 2022

Lamborghini previews incoming Huracan Sterrato

We assumed the off-road Huracan would be bonkers. Lamborghini's trailer suggests we weren't wrong...

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Who wants to see a video of a gnarly lady doing some off-roading on a mountain bike? Of course you do. She’s quick and in a cool setting, with some nice old stone buildings and a few round bales. You’ll like it. Oh yeah, and as a bit of filler, there’s a Lamborghini Huracan doing some slidey slidey stuff while wanging its V10 off the limiter.

Has that got your attention? Good. As we know, the Huracan is really not long for this world. That’s very sad, because it’s a fantastic supercar that isn’t just a bonkers and beautiful car, but also great to drive, too. The next one will hopefully emulate that, but as it’s destined to be a plug-in hybrid come 2024, who knows what will transpire. Watch this space…

So while you may kneejerk into thinking ‘What the flip is the point of a jacked-up Huracan with SUV arches, bigger intakes, an LED lightbar and roof rack?’ you might just miss this kind of oddball, petrol-powered madness when it’s gone. We’re talking, of course, about the Huracan Sterrato. It’s still in camouflage with ‘Brave. Authentic. Unexpected’ written on the door. Not sure unexpected works anymore, seeing as we’ve known about Lambo’s first rally-enthused supercar for a while now. We saw the concept in 2019 and a prototype testing in the Arctic in January, but this is an official video of the car that confirms it’s coming and, seemingly, confirms the name as well – it’s written on the rear numberplate, after all.

Other than that, we don’t know a lot more about it. Naturally it’s got chunky off-road tyres and more ground clearance, and, despite the lurid oversteer shots, it would be hard to imagine dumping the AWD drivetrain for a car designed to step off the Tarmac and dabble in dirt. What power output will be generated by the naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 remains another unanswered question. As anything up to 640hp is available right now that’s got to be on the cards. After all, the less sense this car makes the better. Because when it comes to wowing the super-rich looking for a new plaything that’s what makes the most sense. 

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[MF35]

Looks great. To my eyes, it just has a normal suspension, but the market has been so corrupted by track-biased suspensions being mis-sold in road cars that a normal suspension nowadays has to be apologised for, and journalists under 40 generally are unfamiliar with anything else. This has no more of an arch gap than any 1990s sports car.

[Dr S]

Finally an SUV worth getting

[dzernski]

Finally - something subtle I can take down the shoot.
It's that or someone's been playing too much Forza Horizon.

[cookie1600]

Ha ha! Lamborghini trying to out-do TaxTheRich100

[LotusOmega375D]

Just the job for getting round the farm. They’ve always made tractors after all.

By the way is Sterrato Italian for steroids?

Edited by LotusOmega375D on Tuesday 26th July 15:00

[RB Will]

Would absolutely have one if I had the money.
Had an Ariel Nomad for a few months now and having had fast grippy stuff for years it is fantastic to have something that you really have to work and have fun with limited grip, even better that you can take it on gravel tracks / fields / rally stages for playing too. With a bit more ride height this might be about peak car for me.

[Demonix]

Just the normal roads round my neck of the woods would probably remove undertray, exhaust and other bits n bobs from that, cool but definitely needs a bigger increase in ground clearance to have fun away from the tarmac. Don't think Bowler will be too troubled by this foray into performance off roading, an Lm001/2 this is not !

[LucyP]

LotusOmega375D said:

Just the job for getting round the farm. They’ve always made tractors after all.

By the way is Sterrato Italian for steroids?

Edited by LotusOmega375D on Tuesday 26th July 15:00

The car company hasn't been anything to do with the tractor company since 1973 when Lamborghini sold it off to an agricultural machine company. Today Lamborghini Trattori it is just one of that company's brands. If you have watched Clarkson's farm, you will have seen that he has a Lamborghini tractor. In reality it is just a re-badged Deutz-Fahr tractor, made in Germany because that is another of their brands.

VW group purchased Lamborghini cars from it's then Indonesian owners in 1998.

[sinbaddio]

LotusOmega375D said:

By the way is Sterrato Italian for steroids?

Edited by LotusOmega375D on Tuesday 26th July 15:00

Off Road apparently. Anything in Italian always sounds much more exciting. Like a Maserati Quattroporte/4 door.

Anyhow - I think this car is fantastic!

[DevonPaul]

MF35 said:

Looks great. To my eyes, it just has a normal suspension, but the market has been so corrupted by track-biased suspensions being mis-sold in road cars that a normal suspension nowadays has to be apologised for,

Exactly - you can now buy a Lambo sports car designed for UK B-roads, the school runs, AND getting on and off the driveway. Shame it will be out of my budget by a zero or 2.

[Midgster]

100% completely pointless.....but I love the whole idea.

If I had the cash, I'd have one for sure.

[romac]

Came here to give it 5 stars, but that option seems to be unavailable at the moment.

Italian is such a beautifully expressive language, isn't it. "Sterrato" = "Dirt". I guess in the sense of "Dirt or unpaved Road".

Sadly, it will always be beyond my means!

[nismo48]

Midgster said:

100% completely pointless.....but I love the whole idea.

If I had the cash, I'd have one for sure.

+1 me too

[pycraft]

I love the idea of an off-roading Huracan, but... ground clearance?

[Possum19]

I see a new WRC class forming, jacked-up super and sports cars screaming through dusty deserts and snowy forests!

[RB Will]

Possum19 said:

I see a new WRC class forming, jacked-up super and sports cars screaming through dusty deserts and snowy forests!

There is a class that would probably allow them. Seen Astons and Porsche competing, possibly not WRC though.

[996TT02]

Ahh, lots of ground clearance.

[chrisironside]

The Sterrato looks great...

But it also looks like that's a cut-scene from Forza Horizon and they've been forced to make a car for it.

Offroad-capable supercar with next-to-no ground clearance seems like quite a challenging niche to conquer, but I'm sure it will sell none the less.

[McAndy]

Well, this is thing is terribly silly isn't it. What need does the world have for combining the two worst things to cruise the congested cities in which they'll inevitably be shown off: off-roaders and supercars?

I love it.

I want one!

[Red6]

The perfect Chelsea Tractor

Love it