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Lamborghini lost in solipsistic aggression

Lamborghini just revealed another concept to celebrate its 50th anniversary as a car manufacturer this year. According to its designer Walter da Silva - otherwise head of design for all of Volkswagen - the cars profile is resembling a charging bull. Not so sure about this. To me it looks more like a cockroach. certainly also fierce animals, but not quite celebrated in the way the fighting bulls celebrated in the Italian manufacturers nomenclature.



I am generally not so sure about these hyper-exclusive styling exercises (the Sesto Elemento, Veneno etc.) while the Gallardo is now over a decade old - and has just received another at the very least debatable update. To some extent the corporate schedule at Audi and Volkswagen has to be blamed for this. But the Estoque, for example, at least provided a vision for what a large, elegant Lamborghini could be. And Lamborghini was certainly also about elegant tourers, think Espada, and not only about hyper-aggressive pseudo-racers.

posted by car design @ 4:58 AM