Super Concept Cars Blog

The Auto China 2012 event held in the Beijing capital Monday rolled out an extraordinary line-up of new vehicles from across the world, with global automakers brandishing an impressive combination of luxury and sports in their respective car segments.

Among the hoard of exhibits, 120 new models, 74 concept vehicles and 88 new-energy vehicles made their way to the auto show. A total of 1,125 automobiles, including vehicles from Volkswagen, Audi, Nissan, Bentley, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche and several domestic brands, were displayed at the exhibition, which ends May 2, 2012, the China Daily reported.

Keen to tap into China’s expanding luxury and large car market, Lamborghini unveiled its new highly anticipated Urus SUV concept car, the Italian car manufacturer’s first SUV in nearly 2 decades. The 600 horsepower SUV is said to come with a price tag of around $200,000 and is expected sometime in 2015.

“The Urus is a very concrete idea for the future of Lamborghini – as a third model line and as the perfect complement to our super sports cars,” Lamborghini president and CEO, Stephan Winkelmann said at the event, the publication noted. “SUVs stand for freedom and emotion. SUVs make up one of the most successful market segments worldwide. The Urus is the most extreme interpretation of the SUV idea; it is the Lamborghini of the SUVs.”

According to a report on the Telegraph, SUV sales were estimated to have grown 25 percent in 2011 reaching 2.1 million vehicles, which is approximately 12 percent of light vehicle sales in the country.

Meanwhile, click on the slideshow above to view the hottest cars displayed at the Auto China 2012 car show.

A few days ago we got the pleasure of seeing a cool Lamborghini concept called the Cnossusthat was designed by a couple of students with the permission of the company themselves. Today we got to see another cool Lamborghini concept study. The Lamborghini Navarra is the work of an American by the name of Adam Denning who is a designer for Lockheed Martin USA.

His car was created as a successor for the current Murcielago model: “I tried to imagine all the V12 flagships of the brand from the Miura to the Murcielago, and then create a car that would look like it not only belonged in this group, but that it was the result of these cars as well. I was very inspired by Michelangelo’s La Pietà. The way Mary’s garments flow down and fold over each other was the main inspiration for the Navarra’s overlapping surfaces and organic shapes.

Denning, who has a masters in Automotive Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Italy, says the Navarra will use a carbon-fiber frame and carbon-fiber panels. The power behind the concept would be a powerful V12 engine producing between 650 and 700 bhp.

The name Andrei Avarvarii started to become more and more recognized, the concept that you see here was made from zero by him. He didn’t do that only from passion, he was coordinated by the head of design of the Italian brand. As I said, this Lamborghini Minotauro wasn’t made from ambition, it was the final project from MA in Scuola Politehnica di Design from Milano.

This project took place under the supervision of Filippo Perini, the head of design from Lamborghini and it represents a possible future electric vehicle. From the motorization point of view this Minotauro drops the huge V12 and in its place it has four electric engines, two on the front size developing 75 horsepower and other two in the back side developing 175 horsepower.

Those two front engines provide 30% power to the front wheels. The total amount of power is 507 horsepower, which is pretty decent for a future supercar. About the exterior what can I say, the characteristic word is “future” and I appreciate the fact that they kept the Lamborghini character, if you look from the front side you will see what I mean