As outrageous as the Huracan and Aventador are, the
concepts, one-offs, and limited-edition supercars coming out of Lamborghini's
low-volume production facility are some of the most extreme out there.
It's called the Bandido, and it's product of a joint
effort between graduate design students Fernando Pastre Fertonani (who did the
exterior) and Yangznan Kang (who focused on the cockpit). The two completed the
project – with input from Lamborghini's own design department – while
undertaking their Masters in Transportation and Car Design at the Scuola
Politecnica di Design in Milan.
The design brief calls for “a hypercar for the year
2030,” and adopts a single-seat cockpit with a central seating position only open like an F1 racer. It also
envisions individual hub motors in each wheel, with the bodywork designed to
reflect that. Fortunately there still appears to be plenty of room in the back
for a V10 or V12 internal combustion engine as well, which we can't see the
engineers in Sant'Agata Bolognese giving up in the next dozen years.
That edgy bodywork is designed to fit
on top of a carbon-fiber chassis – not a passenger cell, but a fuselage running the full length of the vehicle, to which the
aerodynamic appendages and rolling stock are mounted. It's
aggressive enough in its styling that we could actually see the Raging Bull
marque produce just such a vehicle, however fantastical it may seem, even if
it'd take until 2030 to make it happen.