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The Urus SUV is the Lamborghini model that strays furthest from the path. It's also their most successful model, but what would it take for it to be truly super? Probably a mid-engined layout.
With sharp styling, an exotic badge, the Urus became the Lamborghini of SUVs a couple of years ago. Literally, every successful rapper has at least thought about buying one. But if you strip away the skin, it's not that different from a Bentley Bentayga.
The first SUV in Lambo history is based on a VW Group chassis, shared with the Audi Q7, the Touareg, Porsche Cayenne, and Bentayga. It's quite different from something like a Huracan, which has a kind of space frame around the mid-mounted engine that then attaches to the body. In a crash, many supercars split in two, but you won't see that with the Urus.
Obviously, you can take a normal vehicle and put the engine in the middle. They do that all the time with race cars and Dom's new Charger is also mid-engined. But this rendering by wb.artist20 tries to take a completely different approach by imagining a mid-engined car built from the ground up that way.
The imaginary super-SUV has the cabin moved further forward. Presumably, the engine is still a twin-turbo V8, since this is ideal for heavy cars, but now it sits behind the second row of seats. That's going to be both really fun and terrifying for the kids!
Seeing air scoops at the back of this Urus is what led us to share this rendering. But we also find the chopped coupe roof interesting. Lamborghini could have done a little more in that department. Speaking of coupe roofs, we've also spotted a chopped, sporty take on the Bentley Bentayga from another artist. It's not mid-engined, so that might actually see the light of production eventually. Every good SUV needs to have a coupe version, right?
The first SUV in Lambo history is based on a VW Group chassis, shared with the Audi Q7, the Touareg, Porsche Cayenne, and Bentayga. It's quite different from something like a Huracan, which has a kind of space frame around the mid-mounted engine that then attaches to the body. In a crash, many supercars split in two, but you won't see that with the Urus.
Obviously, you can take a normal vehicle and put the engine in the middle. They do that all the time with race cars and Dom's new Charger is also mid-engined. But this rendering by wb.artist20 tries to take a completely different approach by imagining a mid-engined car built from the ground up that way.
The imaginary super-SUV has the cabin moved further forward. Presumably, the engine is still a twin-turbo V8, since this is ideal for heavy cars, but now it sits behind the second row of seats. That's going to be both really fun and terrifying for the kids!
Seeing air scoops at the back of this Urus is what led us to share this rendering. But we also find the chopped coupe roof interesting. Lamborghini could have done a little more in that department. Speaking of coupe roofs, we've also spotted a chopped, sporty take on the Bentley Bentayga from another artist. It's not mid-engined, so that might actually see the light of production eventually. Every good SUV needs to have a coupe version, right?
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