It has been revealed that Lamborghini is currently considering a fourth model to join the existing Huracán, Aventador and Urus line-up. According to Autocar, the Italian luxury carmaker plans to add a four-door, front-engined grand tourer (along the lines of the 2009 Estoque concept) or a third mid-engined super sports car to its stable, but both will probably not enter production at least till 2025.
Lamborghini boss Stefano Domenicali told the British publication at the Goodwood Festival of Speed that the company will only decide to commit to a model until the given timeline, citing that ‘more market research’ needs to be done.
“When the time is right, we have several ideas as to what might be the model to add, for sure. But this is about making the right decision at the right time – and we can’t make it now. As Urus shows us, we need to be what the customer wants; it takes time to know, you can’t just smell it in the air. So I don’t see a fourth model coming before 2024 or 2025,” he explained.
Domenicali also confirmed that work has been done to propose certain models to broaden Lamborghini’s showroom range, but again, none of them would end up as production cars in the near future. “It is good to plan for the future, but on the other hand we need to understand that we’re about to double the dimensions of our company. You cannot triple it in two years,” he said.
Right now, Lamborghini’s executives are split between the two new models. A third mid-engined supercar could technically allow the automaker to invest in an all-new carbon-fibre-rich platform, which can be purposed for the Huracán and Aventador’s successors. This has gained much internal support after Audi’s apparent plan to can the R8, a model which shares the same platform as the Huracán.
With the Urus, it seems as though Lamborghini is bound for a massive growth spurt, but Domenicali thinks that now is not the time to be aggressively expansive. “We have doubled our volumes over the last five years. It’s a great time for us – and this is without the effect of Urus, which we have only just started to deliver to customers. It shows that the choices we take in terms of strategy and growth are the right ones, and we are very pleased for that.
“At the end of next year, we can be really close to 8,000 units of annual volume. And we should not underestimate what that means for a company that was so small not so many years ago. We have to pause to understand who we will be. In this case, we are not worried about the product too much; we need to be focused on our business, and the change it’s going through. We are not any more in a garage; we are playing a different game, and we need a new mentality as a company,” added Domenicali.
The CEO prioritises stability and ‘not thinking too short-term’. He also said work on the electrified Aventador and Huracán is underway, but neither will be debuting for at least two years. What do you think? Fancy yourself a Lamborghini GT?
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its only viable for future Lambo to take electrification route.