Lamborghini said it would be happy to offer its clients manual transmission versions of its supercars, but could find no way to make the offer commercially viable. It stressed that even the Volkswagen Group, which the Italian company is part of, is currently lacking appropriate transmission tech.
Speaking in an interview, Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali said that the manual transmission that used to ship with the Huracan supercar was no longer manufactured, and that the company no longer had the money to bring it back into production. As for the Lamborghini Aventador, no one in the Volkswagen Group has ever had a compatible manual transmission design.
In an earlier news, we reported that Lamborghini was probing the market viability of a hardcore off-road SUV that would pick up where the LM002 left off. The company’s other plans include releasing a four-door Gran Turismo vehicle in the foreseeable future.
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