There's Life In Lamborghini Beyond The V12

Terzo Millennio concept is a peep into Lambo’s post-petrol crystal ball. Hint: it’s electric, but the design and performance are just as unhinged.

- Vijay Pattin

The humble motor car and its place in our society has been having a bit of an identity crisis of late. Electric and hybrid cars—and our inevitable march towards robotized, self-driving boredom—dominate the landscape. Sometimes, it can get a bit depressing.

Step forward Lamborghini, who clearly got this worldwide memo for sustainable motoring and immediately hit ‘delete.’ For this new concept car, dubbed the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio, is quite simply nuts. The best kind of nuts, mind you. The press release states that “the technological goal of the project is to enable Lamborghini to address the future of the super sports car in five different dimensions: energy storage systems, innovative materials, propulsion system, visionary design, and emotion”. It’s certainly got the latter nailed— we’re experiencing upsetting levels of want here in the TG office.

Some context. A year ago, Lamborghini teamed up with the vaunted Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build something that would “rewrite the rules on super sports cars” for the third millennium (that’s the ‘Terzo Millennio’ bit).