Lamborghini Teases an Off-Road Ready Huracan on Twitter

Legend has it that when Lamborghini engineers were developing and testing the Urus for its off-road capabilities, they fell in love with the beaten path. The result: the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato. Built specifically for going where most Lamborghinis would never touch the Sterrato couldn’t help but to attack trails aggressively— in typical Lambo fashion.

The fate of the concept when it was released back in 2019 was all but certain. Facing death as just a one-off prototype vehicle, Lamborghini adored its project child so much it decided to develop enough to bring it to market. How’d they announce such a wild twist to their lineup? On Twitter of course, seems like that’s where the “kids” get all their news. With an action-packed highlight reel of the Sterrato’s off-road film, what seemed like simply a fever dream merely years ago now is ready to become a full out production vehicle.

Different from the 2019 show off is the deletion of the center light bar, which albeit is a tad ridiculous… when have we ever heard Lamborghini, off-road, and light bar in the same sentence? Yet two lights remain on the hood. Roof rails and plastic cladding on the fenders have been added atop what you get on a regular Huracan playing to the off-road, rugged look. The regular sport suspension has been traded out for a lift kit of sorts with a stockier and dirt-tuned setup which lets the Sterrato sit visibly much higher than a regular Huracan Evo, no bumper scrapes here. Hey, you don’t even need the airlift axle lifter anymore! Sounds like free weight-savings to me!

The Sterrato can only be assumed to keep the AWD system from the seemingly pedestrian Huracan as well. The 2019 concept had all sorts of off-road goodies like a moved front axle for larger wheel clearance, aluminum armor plating, and increased approach and departure angles (1.0 and 6.5 degrees respectively). We still haven’t gotten too much information about what this new ready for production model entails, but we can only assume it’s similar.

In a day and age where we’re talking about swapping the Pirellis on a Lamborghini to thick off-road tires is the day I think the car industry has gone off the rails. But in all honesty, I would totally rock this. We assume that the Sterrato would keep the 631-horsepower engine from the bread-and-butter Lambo V10, so that means this has plenty of supercar power to thrash around on the daily. Everyone knows that supercars are meant to stay on the road, but haven’t you ever thought, “I just had a blast with my Lambo on the racetrack, I wonder how it would do at Moab?”. Well, to be honest I haven’t, but I’ve thought about it now, and it’s truly an interesting thought.

While pricing and official specs haven’t been released yet, nor confirmation that the Sterrato will actually go into production, we can be sure that the cryptic “Stay Tuned” that Lamborghini put out into the caption of the Twitter post means that this off-road menace will actually hit dealerships.

While it may seem a little bonkers to imagine here in the US, the Sterrato might have a logical place geographically in markets like the Middle East and Asian countries. I can also see tons of YouTube automotive influencers with clickbait captions like “Racing the Sterrato Across the Mojave” or “Crushing 10 Cars with My Lambo”.