- Lamborghini has no plans to capitalize on the robust demand for its basic vehicles by constructing new ones
- Lamborghini is dedicated to respecting its heritage and does not need to modify the previous
- Lamborghini additionally will not give its basic vehicles fashionable upgrades, a apply generally known as restomodding
Lamborghini’s basic automobile division, Polo Storico, has the aptitude to construct any of the model’s iconic vehicles from the previous fully from scratch, because it demonstrated in 2021 with the recreation of the long-lost authentic Countach prototype. The automobile was constructed for a loyal buyer and to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of the prototype’s debut on the 1971 Geneva motor present.
Nonetheless, don’t count on Polo Storico to repeat this feat, as Lamborghini has little interest in constructing continuation vehicles, Giuliano Cassataro, Polo Storico’s chief, informed The Drive in an interview revealed on Jan. 20.
“All the pieces that we do will someday be historical past,” Cassataro stated. “We don’t need to modify the previous.”
Within the case of the Countach prototype, Cassataro defined that it shouldn’t be thought of a continuation automobile, because it makes use of the VIN of the unique misplaced instance and was constructed to be an identical to the unique—proper right down to particulars just like the non-functional intakes and pop-up headlights. The unique prototype was used for crash testing in 1974, and its stays went lacking afterward.
Lamborghini Countach LP500 prototype recreation
Cassataro additionally informed The Drive that Lamborghini isn’t excited by creating restomods. Nonetheless, Polo Storico is open to creating modifications to basic vehicles, supplied the modifications are period-correct.
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann has beforehand said that the corporate isn’t excited by launching vehicles with retro designs. Nonetheless, that stance didn’t cease Lamborghini from introducing a contemporary Countach in 2021, based mostly on the Aventador platform.
Ferrari is one other model that has no plans to supply restomods or continuation vehicles, although it’s open to retro designs. In 2018, Ferrari introduced the Icona collection, a lineup of low-volume, special-edition vehicles that includes retro-inspired designs. The latest Icona automobile was 2021’s Daytona SP3, whose design drew inspiration from Ferrari’s sport prototype endurance racers of the Sixties. The subsequent Icona automobile is rumored to take inspiration from the F40.