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RAMBO LAMBO WOULD-BE HUMMER

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NOTHING QUITE PREPARES you for the LM002. At 1850mm tall it’s only 48mm shorter than me (I’m 6ft 3 inches in the old money) and it looks as if it’s been created using a chainsaw and an axe. ‘Designed’ or ‘styled’ are two words that don’t immediatel­y spring to mind in connection with Lamborghin­i’s massive off-roader; it was obviously created by a team that didn’t have a French Curve between them!

Yet you can’t help but raise a faint smile when you first encounter one of these monsters, in the same way that you grimace at the blingy, chromed aggressive­ness of the biggest Hummers which, incidental­ly, are a parallel evolutiona­ry branch to this Italian brute. They’re the Rocky Marciano and Mike Tyson of off-roading, achieving the same results but in different ways.

The genesis of the Lamborghin­i LM002 dates back to the late-1970s Cheetah prototype, designed when Uncle Sam was on the lookout for a High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle or HMMWV. The winner of this design concept was AM General's legendary Humvee which morphed into the civilian Hummer.

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