This hornless giant is the worst car in the history of Lamborghini

If you think it is not possible for the supreme Lamborghini company to produce a bad car, join us to introduce the worst car in the history of this company!

Knowing that someone has a Lamborghini car is enough to open another account for him; Because the cars of this brand are a symbol of power and amazing engineering that give a lot of value and credibility to the buyer and the driver! For this reason, talking about a bad or low-quality Lamborghini model may seem a little strange to you.

However, history is full of many bad and forgettable products that were produced by different companies and sometimes even damaged the overall reputation of the brand. Examples of these can be found in the automotive industry. Basically, when a car manufacturer decides to produce a product against its nature, it has committed a big gamble that can cause a successful expansion of the brand's product range or damage its overall image. An example of this happened to Porsche before. When this company decided to launch the SUV Cayenne, it faced different reactions. This company was originally a manufacturer of sports cars; Therefore, no one was used to seeing an SUV with the Porsche brand on the streets. However, “Porsche Cayenne” soon became the most successful car of this brand and the best-selling model of 2022 of this company.

This did not happen to Lamborghini at all! Because the company's luxury off-road pickup, the LM 002, known as the Rambo Lambo, never saw the light of day during its six-year lifespan and became a major technological and commercial failure for the Italian raging bull. As a result of this incident, the off-road van LM 002 is probably the worst car in the history of Lamborghini. In the following, we will get to know more about this ugly and hornless giant of Lamborghini.

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Calling the Lamborghini Urus, Lamborghini's latest hot SUV the adopted child of the LM 002, is an insult to Urus owners! Because these two cars are far from each other both from a commercial point of view and popularity among Farsang fans. However, if you think that the Urus is the first Lamborghini car that is not in the super sports class, you are very wrong!

The overall design of the LM 002 is inspired by military vehicles and is full of rough corners and edges. However, its appearance could not inspire the viewer with the sense of aggressiveness of other Lamborghinis. In the late 1970s, the United States Army was looking for a company to replace Jeep as its corporate vehicle and asked Lamborghini to produce a military vehicle for the military. The Italians offered the Cheetah car, which was a four-seater, doorless, two-ton vehicle that used a 5.9-liter Chrysler V8 engine and produced 183 horsepower.

This car was very similar in appearance to the Ford XR-311 and even used the same engine. For this reason, Ford sued Lamborghini and as a result, the Italians failed to register a contract with the US Army. Later, Lamborghini's financial situation worsened and the company was sold to Patrick and Jean-Claude Mimran for £1.25 million.

The new owners of Lamborghini sought to recoup the research and development costs of the Cheetah in any way possible. As a result, they unveiled the first model of the LM 001 pickup and then the second concept model, the LM 002, whose engine was moved to the front. Lamborghini also used the V12 engine of the Kontash LP 500 with a volume of 5.2 liters in this design. It had a built-in concept and offered 455 horsepower.

Why is LM 002 the worst car in the history of Lamborghini company?

The root of Rambo Lambo's problems was that it was actually a military vehicle that could not be put to its true uses and was instead given to ordinary citizens. Of course, the use of the powerful Kontash engine made this car have a lot of power. However, people who were looking for a powerful car could combine this extraordinary power with many other features such as excellent steering to have a real supercar!

Another problem with LM 002 was that it was a technologically backward product and even compared to some SUVs of that time, it had nothing to say. Therefore, this car was more like a product suitable for a museum than a car for modern streets. This problem caused few people to welcome this car and its seemingly powerful engine.

In addition, although the powerful engine and very good suspension system of this Lamborghini pickup made it a suitable product for off-road roads, the high weight and low field of vision of this car made driving it on paved roads a nightmare. Interestingly, even with this powerful V12 engine, Rambo Lambo had weaker acceleration than many SUVs in its class. Zero to hundred of this car was equal to 7.7 seconds according to statistics. This acceleration was considered average to good even for the 80s; Let alone today, when the acceleration of sports cars is reaching the limit of one second!

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Besides all these things, the very high fuel consumption and the very high price of 120,000 dollars made this car unable to sell more than 328 units. Many people who bought a unit of this car had to do heavy customization. They were so that they could use it for normal use. Overall, the Lamborghini LM 002 may be a car ahead of its time. However, today, when pickup cars have become more common all over the world, it is not possible to use it properly and calculate it. In this way, Rambo Lambo should probably be considered the worst car in the history of the Lamborghini company.