Lamborghini Urus Hybrid Version

Initially, the final version of the SUV is expected to be offered with a 4.0-liter twin-turbo petrol V8 instead of the V10 and V12 naturally aspirated units from the Huracan and Aventador, which in itself is a break with tradition. Further down the road, a a plug-in hybrid variant is a very likely candidate for expanding its line up, as Autocar reports.

"When you add a 200kg battery to a super-sports car, you immediately change the weight distribution of the car. You destroy the DNA of the car", said the automaker's research and development boss, Maurizio Reggiani, who continued to talk about the LM002's spiritual successor: "In the Urus there will be a bigger luggage compartment, so you have the space where you can install batteries in a position that is good in principal for an SUV, and you don’t need a complete redevelopment or repackaging of the car."

Regiani pointed out that achieving less than 100g/km of CO2 is extremely challenging because 200kg (441lbs) of batteries have to be added to the vehicle due to the hybrid system, and then the engineers will try to cut down this weight again by using materials such as carbon fiber, titanium and magnesium.

Lamborghini's president and CEO Stephan Winkelmann is not convinced yet that this is the right path: "If you really want to have a hybrid car with, for example, an electric range of 50km, but you want to also maintain a good power-to-weight, you are raising the bar to a million-pound car", he said. "It is something that we cannot allow without then charging it back to the customers, and this is not a market that is so large it can last for seven or eight years. It will be dead after a couple of years."

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Lamborghini Huracan LP580-2 Lifestyle

So far, four different variants of the Huracan have been launched in the last two years. They consist of the standard LP610-4 coupe and Spyder models, the track-only LP620-4 Super Trofeo and the new LP580-2. The Huracan GT3 could also be thrown in there as the fifth version. While speaking with Autocar recently, the firm's chief executive Stephan Winkelmann revealed that the Gallardo wasn't developed with additional variants in mind, but the Huracan was created from the outset to be available in a number of different guises.

"Unlike the Gallardo, where our derivative strategy came after the car was developed and was also mainly in the second part of the life cycle, with the Huracán we initiated all those things during the development of the base car."

It is believed that the next derivative could take the form of an LP580-2 Spyder. That car would likely then be followed by the likes of a hardcore, track-focused model, possibly available in hardtop and softtop guises and potentially badged the Superleggera. With the Huracan range, Lamborghini is keen on covering five different basis; lifestyle, race, performance, high-performance and fun to drive - and that recipe could be further expanded.

"It could be more than five derivatives over the life cycle. We have a lot of ideas that are already planned, but the more we think, the more things are coming up; it’s a matter also of whether we can allow ourselves to do it because we also have to consider investment, production capacity and complexity."

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