TIL: Lamborghini Built a Minivan Concept

"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4) 08/20/2019 at 15:34 • Filed to: None

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With a Countach V12 mated to a TorqueFlite. It was called the Genesis.

Still weighed less than an Aventador...

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:43

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For some reason, it immediately made me think of the Olds Silhouette, mostly because of the general shape, I guess.

SiennaMan > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:44

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 Yup, Lamborghini would never actually make a production minivan,  that'd be like them making a production suv.  Oh wait..

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chariotoflove 08/20/2019 at 15:50

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It’s definitely reminiscent of the GM  dust buster vans.

Tripper > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:51

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Haha, that thing looks like one of those “VR” rides that were in malls in the 80's/90's

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:54

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It kind of looks like it’s going the wrong way. 

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:57

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I’d never heard them called that.  It made me lol.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:59

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i’d take this insted

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 15:59

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Crazy concept. What an inefficient seating arrangement and to only get 5 bodies in the beast is laughable. I get that it’s only a concept but seriously, this was 1988 and Chrysler must have had a better option than a 3 speed torque flight, show me their competition to the 700R4 or 2004R.

Thanks for sharing.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chariotoflove 08/20/2019 at 16:00

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Really? I thought it was common parlance.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Tripper 08/20/2019 at 16:00

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^facts

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 08/20/2019 at 16:01

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Counterpoint: Countach V12

and 100 more > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 16:01

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Those wheels are dope as fuck.

Also, the front seat bottoms are part of the vehicle’s structure. Like, you sit  over the front suspension. Cocaine was used in the making of this vehicle, for sure.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > and 100 more 08/20/2019 at 16:02

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There’s no doubt about that. I love the wheels and seating setup tho.

AuthiCooper1300 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 16:23

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No, no, no.

I am old enough to remember it when it was introduced to the press. As far as I know this was a just a concept by Bertone and it was built by them - probably trying to attract the attention of Chrysler, which owned Lamborghini at the time.

I may be wrong, but have never read or heard that the Genesis had been commissioned by Lamborghini e i t h e r (or b y Chrysler, for that matter)

Bertone used to build fully-working dream/concept cars... unprompted (that’s how the Stratos Zero came to be, starting from a second hand Fulvia engine and gearbox). I suppose they simply looked for some cheap bits from a crashed Lamborghini and set out to work.

user314 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 08/20/2019 at 16:24

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It’s like someone saw a shuttle from Star Trek TNG and though it needed wheels

Chariotoflove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 16:32

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TIL I guess.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chariotoflove 08/20/2019 at 17:33

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TheMoreYouKnow.gif

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > AuthiCooper1300 08/20/2019 at 17:35

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Yeah, it was a Bertone Concept. Not sure of Lamborghini’s actual involvement, but neat nonetheless.

AuthiCooper1300 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 18:05

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Very neat indeed, fully agree.

I think the rationale behind the proposal went more or less like this: in 1987 Chrysler had shown the Portofino, an in-house design for Lamborghini. They were blah-blah-ing lots about its cab-forward concept so soon later Bertone must have thought “oh, you at Chrysler want cab-forward design, huh? I’ll give you cab-forward design and then some. And now that were are at it, a single-box shape, because Renault Espace* and your minivans and whatnot. Maybe you’ll be interested enough to work with us in a production version...”

U n f o r t u n a t e l y i t d i d n o t h a p p e n , b u t t h e n L a m b o r g h i n i w a s n o t e x a c t l y i n w o n d e r f u l s h a p e a t t h e t i me.

(* ) N ote that the Espace was in fact developed by Matra for Chrysler Europe. When PSA bought w h o l e s a l e the sad remnants of Chrysler European operations they didn’t now what to do with the Espace project, so they let Matra keep it, who promptly offered the idea to Renault.

An interesting consequence of Matra’s involvement was that the original Espace had truly excellent road manners .

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 18:54

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Why no innovation anymore?

This is like mega-ultra-super Previa, powered by Lamborghini.

Makes most mainstream cars look like dull cold oatmeal sort of cars.

ranwhenparked > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 21:43

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A Lamborghini minivan with a Chrysler transmission - a nd Bob Lutz told Iacocca there wouldn’t be any synergy.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/20/2019 at 22:56

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Looks like something Luigi Colani dreamt up 

bhtooefr > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 08/22/2019 at 07:57

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So, for RWD, Chrysler debuted the A500 in 1988... but that was the light duty transmission for use behind the 5.2 liter and smaller engines, 260 lb-ft tops. The Lamborghini LM002 engine that this thing used made 368 lb-ft.

I think they would’ve needed the A518, but that didn’t exist until 1990.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > bhtooefr 08/22/2019 at 10:38

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Don't forget you’re referencing publicly available transmissions, I imagine there'd be development stuff but maybe not.