LAMBO HURACÁN STERRATO
BULLY BEEF
CAR WE’RE MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO DRIVING IN 2023
Lamborghini’s been threatening to unleash a jacked-up off-road Huracán for years. Now, it’s gone and done it
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“WHAT WE’RE LOOKING AT IS A GRAVEL-SPEC HURACÁN RALLY CAR, OR WHAT AMOUNTS TO A HURACÁN SAFARI”
Automotive product cycles often mimic real life – they begin noisy and full of hope, spend some time maturing, settle into the solid mediocrity of middle age and then quietly slip away into obscurity, gently shuffled from price lists. But supercars tend to be a bit different. They’re the playboy uncles and aunties of the car world, the ones that grow old disgracefully, get drunk at weddings and wear inappropriate clothes. Cars that gain don’t-give-a-damn lucidity in the palliative care ward of the automobile.
The truth is, imminent replacement frees up creativity both in terms of remit and accountancy, and allows for specials that are truly worthy of the name. Take the Lamborghini Huracán, for example, a medium-sized supercar that’s been terrorising Ferraris since 2014. We’ve already had the Tecnica and STO in the past 18 months, arguably two of the most complete iterations of the Huracán bloodline thus far, and now we have something that comes as a bit of a curveball – aproduction version of the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato concept from 2019. Of course, the name itself gives the game away if you speak any Italian, because sterrato literally means ‘dirt road’ in Italianese. A name that does away with romantic whimsy in favour of being absolutely descriptive – this is a Huracán with extra dirt road ability. Not an Urus SUV with chunky tyres, then? Lamborghini, we salute you.