Remember your Roots: Lamborghini Toro tractor concept
Lamborghini Toro concept – Click above for a galleryMost automakers try desperately to hold on to their roots. Just look at all the anniversaries we've been celebrating lately and you'll know what we mean. Lamborghini, on the other hand, seems keen to leave them behind. That's probably because Lamborghini's roots are actually in agriculture. As any sportscar aficionado worth his salt will tell you, Ferruccio Lamborghini started out building tractors and only got into the sportscar business to piss off Enzo Ferrari. The gap between its tractors and sportscars was bridged only by the LM002 sport-ute, known as the Rambo Lambo. But one aspiring designer is keen to resoil Lamborghini's past and present into one vehicle, and you're looking at it right here.
Called the Lamborghini Toro, it's the brainchild of aspiring Canadian designer Jason Battersby. Taking cues from Lambo's own agricultural equipment and its supercars, the Toro cuts a mean profile to envision what an integrated product would look like. Of course it's just a series of conceptual renderings, which you can view in the gallery below. But a small town farm boy can dream, can't he?
Gallery: Lamborghini Toro tractor concept
[Source: JBDesign via eGMCarTech]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Alex 12:45PM (5/06/2009)
kind of makes me want to be a farmer.
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Rob 12:57PM (5/06/2009)
This kind of thing makes me ashamed to be an industrial designer. Lambos have the styling cues they have because they are aggressive supercars meant to haul ass at high speeds. A tractor's life is much different. I can point out literally hundreds of reasons why this would be a horrible tractor, just looking at it. Taking the styling of one thing, applying it to something else, and completely ignoring the needs of the new product is BAD DESIGN.
OTOH, maybe I should model up some lancia stratos inspired school buses and I'd get featured on autoblog. That might be cool.
Carguy 1:38PM (5/06/2009)
Except the Reventon...which does exactly the same thing. It takes a stealth fighter design and applies it to a car where it makes no sense. Lambo design is starting to have a theme of epic fail if you ask me, unless their sole mission is to part rich fools from their money.
Jim D 2:00PM (5/06/2009)
"...brainchild of aspiring Canadian designer Jason Battersby.."
If you actually took a moment to comprehend the article, you might realize that this design has nothing to do with the actual Lamborghini company. Seriously, it's just someone's idea of a cool concept render.
You fail.
Rob 2:47PM (5/06/2009)
@ Jim: Duh. This is why I said I was ashamed to be a designer, not a Lamborghini employee. It is obviously not from lambo, but it is still retarded for the reasons I already mentioned. I do not understand why AB posts such mediocre poorly thought out stuff like this.
cdwrx 3:10PM (5/06/2009)
@ Rob,
This guy is a stylist, not a designer. There's a big difference between solving problems and rendering surfaces. In this case, rendering them poorly.
I also like the name Toro. It reminds me of crap lawnmowers.
Rob 5:00PM (5/06/2009)
I'm pretty sure it says "aspiring designer" not stylist. In any event, the styling should reflect the use of the product, not pretend to be something else.
GOT 8:15AM (5/07/2009)
@Rob: Agreed. But this isn't cause to be ashamed. It's an awesome concept, but for the reasons you mention, would never get built. Most farmers would be embarrassed to be in one. There would be no market.
As a design, it's very successful. It looks like it could be kept cleaner with fewer nooks to fill up with dirt. It also appears that the body could made stronger than current 2-box layout tractors. So even though it doesn't adhere to the traditional utilitarian image of tractors it could be much better.
If the tractor were more reliable, easier to maintain, more economical, and marketing handled the advertising correctly the tractor would be a blockbuster and everyone would have one. HOWEVER, if the beauty failed to live up to the portrayed performance and visual-promise of potential, it would forever bring ruin to the company.
s13hybrid 12:48PM (5/06/2009)
This would be THE tractor to have at your local fair's tractor pull. haha
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RWD fan 12:49PM (5/06/2009)
I'd love to have a Bugatti bench vice, but sadly even those are out of my price range!
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Tourian 12:50PM (5/06/2009)
I wouldn't say they are keen to leave it behind considering they still make tractors today.
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Francis 12:56PM (5/06/2009)
Why not just get an MB-Trac and call it done?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/MB_Trac1100.jpg/800px-MB_Trac1100.jpg
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Bobmarley 12:51PM (5/06/2009)
I would buy a scaled down version of this...with stock 33" tires, 300+hp n/a V6 and maybe a removable hard top with the same design = ultimate playmobile!
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MrGuru 1:08PM (5/06/2009)
cultivate in class
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beigepants 4:35PM (5/06/2009)
All well and good, but Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is owned by VW and Trattori Lamborghini is owned by SAME Deutz. The two -now unrelated - companies split some time in the 70s so have nothing to do with each other.
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skicat 1:30PM (5/06/2009)
Does this mean that TORO can call one of their tractors a Lamborghini?
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Francis 2:04PM (5/06/2009)
Not but some of THE best yard equipment utilize Lambo' small engines and PTO systems.
Corner49 2:00PM (5/06/2009)
See, that's what's really wrong with the auto industry these days. Nobody builds cars to piss somebody else off anymore. Some of the worlds greatest cars have been built just to serve that purpose.
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Cory 2:51PM (5/06/2009)
Funny. I like the picture of the old farmer with the young hot lady friend. That's what Lambo Agricultural Division is all about.
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Farmboy 7:38PM (5/06/2009)
Impressive looking. I have worked around a Lamborghini tractor, my uncle's to be specific. Very high quality tractors. They work very well, although not like a JD, IH, or NH.
People bash on this or say, "Oooo, I wanna be a farmer now." Whatever. haha.
Styling is stupid for a tractor? That is a retarded statement in itself. Look at the Boomer 8N. It is retrostyled and still works like a mule.
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