While very unlikely, if Lamborghini makes a pickup truck, it would probably look like this.
At one point, Italian supercar manufacturer Lamborghini wanted to supply a military vehicle, which they codenamed the Cheetah, mostly to the oil industry for exploration and production purposes. They even trialed it for the US Army, but the Army itself never actually tried it out. After this plan fell through for Lambo, they simply decided to put together a production SUV with what they learned while developing the Cheetah. The resulting LM002 was a truly ridiculous SUV; it used the V12 from the Countach, it had locking differentials, permanent 4WD, and the tires had a sand lip.
While Lamborghini wanted the LM002 to be a luxury SUV, it was more utilitarian than luxury. Fast-forward to the present day, and SUVs have grown to be more popular than ever. After testing the waters in 2014 with a concept car, Lamborghini announced its return to SUVs with the Urus, which debuted in 2018. While the Urus is a pretty good SUV, and it’s an absolute sales smash hit, you can’t help but wonder; what if Lamborghini made a pickup truck? You need wonder no more, as with the help of digital artist Timothy Adry Emmanuel, HotCars has done it for you in the form a car rendering.
Updated February 2023: Lamborghini is a supercar we all love and adore, but since they introduced the Lamborghini Urus SUV, we figured everything is possible. We imagined the Lamborghini pickup truck to see how it may look like, and the result is a super-truck. It may not be the type of truck you use to move to your new house, but we would all love to see it on the road nonetheless.
A Lamborghini Pickup Is Not A Utility Truck
Let’s just imagine that Lamborghini goes totally cuckoo and decides to put together an actual pickup truck. For starters, the automaker doesn’t have an existing platform that they can base it on, as they’ve never made one before. Technically, the LM002 was a pickup truck, but they marketed it as a luxury SUV, and they filled the “truck bed” with seats and railings that you can hold on to while riding on the beach… in your V12-powered SUV. The only possible platform that Lambo could use would be the next VW Amarok’s platform, which also underpins the new Ford Ranger.
Even though this is a truck, the styling is Lamborghini through and through. It wears bright colors that everyone knows Lamborghini for surprisingly well. The front-end is very obviously Sian, as well as Lambo’s most recent styling efforts. It also appears to inherit the Urus’ doors, but from the rear onwards, it’s all pickup truck. As crazy as it sounds, it actually doesn’t look too bad, and the artist has done a fantastic job making it all fit together.
641 HP For The Lamborghini Truck With Enough Torque To Tow3 Images
There are three potential routes that Lamborghini could take with the powertrain on their pickup truck. The first and most obvious one is just fitting the V8 that’s under the hood of the Urus. For reference, the Urus uses a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 developing 641 hp and 626 lb-ft of torque. Those are more than healthy numbers for an SUV, and they’re certainly healthy for a pickup truck. Not only would they give the pickup some serious pulling power and hauling abilities, but with that much power, it could be a serious competitor to stuff like the Ford F-150 Raptor, and possibly the upcoming Raptor R, and even the RAM TRX, which Ken Block recently used to tear up the desert.
The second option would be Lamborghini adapting one of the other VW Group powertrains to work with the pickup truck. The 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6 from stuff like the Audi RS4 and Porsche Macan could totally work, and Lamborghini might also pair it to a mild hybrid or even plug-in hybrid component. This is a very flexible powertrain, as it’s ready for good amounts of power, and it works great in just about every application. It puts down 444 hp in the current RS4 and RS5, and 434 hp in the latest Porsche Macan GTS, which in itself replaced the Macan Turbo. Furthermore, assuming the Lambo pickup uses the VW Amarok’s platform, it could just use the powertrains offered on the Amarok already.
Finally, with the way things are going in the auto industry right now, Lambo could just make it all-electric. That would mean a lot more weight, but also a lot more pulling power and more efficient power delivery, without being that harmful to the environment. That would also put it right in the firing line of the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Rivian R1T, which we love. If we had to guess, Lamborghini would probably put together something that rivals the RAM TRX, the Ford F-150 Raptor, and to a lesser extent, the Chevrolet Silverado ZR2 and Toyota Tundra TRD Pro. A Lamborghini rival to those off-road-focused pickups would definitely be awesome to see.
The Lambo Truck Is A Tough Ask, But Maybe We Can See A Modified Urus Truck
No. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, as a pickup truck would be such a huge deviation from what everyone knows Lamborghini for, it just doesn’t make economical sense for them. However, it’s interesting to speculate, as Lamborghini still makes tractors and farm equipment to this day, and they do have access to a pickup truck platform. If they wanted to, they could, but it’s extremely unlikely to happen. We can always dream, though. Back in the real world, it looks like Lamborghini is readying a facelifted version of the Urus, and they recently celebrated 20,000 models leaving the factory.
