Ultimate Cars - Adventure Cars - Lamborghini LM 002

" I think this car really is a bit locked grenade with the pin pulled at."

" The hippest people knew what it was, and they would come off the sidewalk, running at you with their arms outstretched when they saw and go by."

" I remember loving its edgy shapes and rather ugly face. This is as square as it gets."

" If you want to gather dust in the Sahara, look no further than car number 4 in our list, the LM002, an awesome desert vehicle. It is the ultimate posers' 4 by 4. It's extremely rare, prohibitively expensive to maintain, and it has the best nickname ever, the Rambo Lambo. In the '80s, 20 years ahead of Porsche's Cayenne, Lamborghini recognized a gap in the market for a supercar that could go anywhere; more specifically, a supercar that could work in the desert."

" What it did was satisfying, rich chicks that wanted these objects to run around in the desert."

" When I heard that Lamborghini had created a large offroader, I laughed out loud."

" That's right. Lamborghini chucked a V12 engine in 4 by 4 and not any old V12 engine you understand, they chucked this car's engine into this. That's right. They installed a Countach engine in a 4 by 4. You notice."

" Well, it did make a great noise when you stood on it too. Wooh, yeah! What a great engine. That was just nuts. That vehicle is insane in a really nice Italian way."

" And with oil-rich magnates firmly in mind, the engine came equipped with 2 giant fans and a variety of filters to cope with the desert heat and sound. The whole package was then mounted on this incredibly rare, and at 1,000 dollars a pop, quite frankly ridiculously priced, Pirelli Scorpion tires, which took the design cues from, camel feet."

" You can learn things from a camel. Because you see a camel walking on a desert, and it has very large feet, and therefore makes a very shallow depression in the sand. And that's what you need to do for the vehicle."

" The final camel toe sand-treading width of the tires was a chunky 34 cm, almost twice the size of a standard Ford Focus tire. Unfortunately, they only made 301 LMs, making them so rare that we have to fly to Japan to track down these 2 owners and their dog Rocky, hidden in a forest 3 hours north of Tokyo. We asked what it was about the LM that made it an ultimate adventure car. Was it its crazy boxy design, its amazing offroad desert capabilities, or was it just that big Italian V12 engine?"

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" I bought it because it was a Lamborghini. There are other cars like the Hammer H2 but I bought it because it's a Lamborghini. "

" We then asked them if they would take us offroad in that raging go anywhere bulls. So we caught the plane home."

" God! I never took that offroad. It was like too much money or something. It was too red. It was too Italian. I think I spent all my time looking for the most people to show off in front of."