Ongoing demand for SUVs and crossovers has prompted premium automakers like Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Ferrari to leap into this rising market, leading to some very spectacular automobiles. Nevertheless, nicely earlier than seemingly each automobile producer on earth jumped on the probability to construct an SUV, Lamborghini unveiled an idea for its first off-roader means again in 1981.

The automobile was generally known as the LM001 and primarily based on the Cheetah that Lamborghini developed within the late Seventies within the hope of promoting it to america Military. These plans didn’t go come to fruition and the next consumer-oriented idea proven on the 1981 Geneva Motor Present additionally proved untenable for manufacturing.

Learn: The Origins Of The LM002 “Rambo Lambo” Are Extra Convoluted Than You Thought

Not keen to surrender on the concept of constructing an off-roader, Lamborghini went again to the drafting board and got here up with the LM002. The production-spec mannequin was launched on the Brussels Motor Present in 1986 and instantly garnered loads of curiosity. A very well-preserved instance is heading to public sale on December 10 and is predicted to promote for between $200,000 and $250,000.

The LM002 in query is chassis quantity 279 and was inbuilt June 1991. It was bought by the present vendor in early 2014 and between 2014 and 2022 was drive simply 56 miles (35 miles), that means it now solely has 8,931 km (5,549 km) on the clock.

The RM Sotheby’s itemizing reveals that the off-roader was repainted within the present shade of pink in 2014 whereas in March 2020, the clutch and flywheel had been changed. It retains the unique eight-spoke OZ Route wheels clad in Pirelli Scorpion tires.

Discovered within the cabin of the ‘Rambo Lambo’ is ivory leather-based upholstery and brown carpets which, regardless of the automobile’s age, stay in good situation.