Lamborghini SUV?
Discussion
Hello - I am doing some research for Lamborghini, through the company I work for (www.thefuturelaboratory.com) and would love to hear from owners around the world of luxury SUVs (Porsche/ Range Rover/ Mercedes) or Ferrari/ Lamborghini sports cars about their views on the possibility of a Lamborghini SUV, as well as other potential new models. This is speculative at present and not to be taken as the intentions of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
Please get in touch if you'd be happy to talk about why you drive the car you do, and what you'd like to see in the medium term future from Lamborghini.
Simon O'Connell.
simon@thefuturelaboratory.com
Please get in touch if you'd be happy to talk about why you drive the car you do, and what you'd like to see in the medium term future from Lamborghini.
Simon O'Connell.
simon@thefuturelaboratory.com
Personally I think its a good idea if done well, take for e.g the Porsche cayenne, I love them but I would never buy one, with S.U.V's I find its all about who can make the biggest, the most luxurious and make something with huge snob appeal, the only S.U.V that I would buy would be the gmc cyclone and typhoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_Typh simply because it broke away from the traditional mould of SUV's and made a small, powerful machine, by no means was it pretty but it is still more than a match for a Cayenne turbo.
An SUV is a compromise in the looks department, it always will be, there will never be an SUV that will go down as a Design classic. Also most SUV's now have never seen more than a puddle and most would start crying at the sight of an off-road course. The LM002 was an amazing machine because it was an off-roader, a proper one, not a soft-roader ,like most.
I always thought that Lamborghini were Dream cars, a car that any enthusiast would buy if he had the money, the same with Ferrari. An SUV like modern ones would bring down the name of Lamborghini, soon enough I plan to get either a Jalpa/silhouette or a 308/328 and personally I would hate to see a new Lambo off-roader or a Ferrari one for that matter. I'd be all up for a new LM002 because that was an off roader not a sissys machine machine like many.
Just my thoughts on the subject,
Ducati
An SUV is a compromise in the looks department, it always will be, there will never be an SUV that will go down as a Design classic. Also most SUV's now have never seen more than a puddle and most would start crying at the sight of an off-road course. The LM002 was an amazing machine because it was an off-roader, a proper one, not a soft-roader ,like most.
I always thought that Lamborghini were Dream cars, a car that any enthusiast would buy if he had the money, the same with Ferrari. An SUV like modern ones would bring down the name of Lamborghini, soon enough I plan to get either a Jalpa/silhouette or a 308/328 and personally I would hate to see a new Lambo off-roader or a Ferrari one for that matter. I'd be all up for a new LM002 because that was an off roader not a sissys machine machine like many.
Just my thoughts on the subject,
Ducati
shadowninja said:
It'll never sell. Look at the Cayenne. Complete financial failure.
Not so sure about complete financial failure - They budgeted to sell 30,000 units annually but have 60,000 per year. It might be not particularily pretty but financally an excellent move by porsche me thinks!
Regards
neil
WIJ933 said:
shadowninja said:
It'll never sell. Look at the Cayenne. Complete financial failure.
Not so sure about complete financial failure - They budgeted to sell 30,000 units annually but have 60,000 per year. It might be not particularily pretty but financally an excellent move by porsche me thinks!
Regards
neil
And the irony wagon goes rolling on by.......
tuffer said:
WIJ933 said:
shadowninja said:
It'll never sell. Look at the Cayenne. Complete financial failure.
Not so sure about complete financial failure - They budgeted to sell 30,000 units annually but have 60,000 per year. It might be not particularily pretty but financally an excellent move by porsche me thinks!
Regards
neil
And the irony wagon goes rolling on by.......
Fair play! - Missed that one completely!
Regards
Neil
WIJ933 said:
tuffer said:
WIJ933 said:
shadowninja said:
It'll never sell. Look at the Cayenne. Complete financial failure.
Not so sure about complete financial failure - They budgeted to sell 30,000 units annually but have 60,000 per year. It might be not particularily pretty but financally an excellent move by porsche me thinks!
Regards
neil
And the irony wagon goes rolling on by.......
Fair play! - Missed that one completely!
Regards
Neil
RobDickinson said:
Personaly I think they've (re)missed the bandwagon.
Big engined cars, especialy 4x4's are going to get a caning from the enviro's and developing one now would only work if it could swing from the hybrid noose.
Arguably true in this country, but there are still a lot of countries behind us in terms of enviromental consciences (read as stealth taxes!). Although saying that, there's still an awful lot of Cayenne's in and around London! Big engined cars, especialy 4x4's are going to get a caning from the enviro's and developing one now would only work if it could swing from the hybrid noose.
Edited by LittleBro on Friday 2nd March 10:29
The environment does not come up when you talk outside Europe. And people who buy SUVs don't tend to buy Fair Trade!
I get the Cayenne joke, but not at first, I admit. Given that Porsche may take over VW - a company that has a turnover 15 times the size - I think we can agree that from a business point of view, Porsche launching an SUV wasn't a bad idea. They make equal profits though, so Porsche must be doing somethign right.
But if Lamborghini made a really 'out there' one? Then what? I have seen the Photoshop guesses and they are not right.
Simon.
I get the Cayenne joke, but not at first, I admit. Given that Porsche may take over VW - a company that has a turnover 15 times the size - I think we can agree that from a business point of view, Porsche launching an SUV wasn't a bad idea. They make equal profits though, so Porsche must be doing somethign right.
But if Lamborghini made a really 'out there' one? Then what? I have seen the Photoshop guesses and they are not right.
Simon.
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