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All-New Lambo Espada Hybrid Revival Could Help Further Drive Sales, If Real

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In case you haven't heard, business is booming at the world's most exotic automakers. For example, Lamborghini has already sold out all of its ICE-powered vehicles, and the all-new Revuelto V12 PHEV flagship might become unavailable through 2025 because all build slots are almost occupied.
That's coming from chief executive officer Stephan Winkelmann, so it's not just a rumor from across the mill. Of course, the company is diligently preparing its exit from traditional 'coal rolling' – aka ICE power – and is currently embarking on the intermediate plug-in hybrid lifestyle.

According to the latest whispers, the Lamborghini Urus PHEV was confirmed for a tentative launch next year and implied that it will be fully electric when the time comes for a new generation – around 2029. As for the upcoming Huracan successor, this one is a PHEV hero just like the flagship Revuelto and will probably feature a more powerful, enhanced version of the Urus PHEV powertrain.

As such, no wonder everyone is thinking about extensive sales and electrification when it comes to Lamborghini – including fans. Both in the real world as well as across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, as it turns out. Thus, meet Giorgi Tedoradze, the Georgia-based industrial designer better known as tedoradze.giorgi on social media, who continues his CGI illustration sketch reel.

The latter includes a multitude of automotive models that may or may never exist – like the hypothetical all-electric Porsche 911, a new BMW Z8, a McLaren 820GTS four-door, the unofficial Alfa Romeo 6C, a Mercedes-AMG SLS, and even an all-electric Bugatti Luminary! Oh, and let us not forget about the potential Lamborghini Stella Hybrid sports car.

Speaking of CGI Lambos, the pixel master then decided that a digital revival was also in order for his ideation sketch series – so we are now looking at a reinvented, modern Lamborghini Espada Hybrid. The nameplate once designated a four-seat grand touring coupe built by the Italian car manufacturer for a decade – between 1968 and 1978.

Back then, it featured a 3.9-liter Lambo V12 engine mated to a five-speed manual or three-speed TorqueFlite automatic transmission. Still, the new one will probably inherit the bonkers PHEV assembly from the Revuelto PHEV if ever real – albeit chiseled and relaxed for GT driving, so presumably, it wouldn't feature 1,001 horsepower. So, would you like to see Lamborghini reviving some of its classics, and does this CGI interpretation of a modern Espada deserve our digital hall pass – or not?

Remember, Lamborghini is doing great these days – so they may want to prop up the sales even more past the current triumvirate that will soon be formed of the Huracan PHEV successor, the Lambo Urus PHEV, and the flagship Revuelto PHEV. Certainly, there's room for at least one more series-produced nameplate, right?





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About the author: Aurel Niculescu
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Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution.
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