The
Feruccio Lamborghini’s appreciation to Spanish culture and bull
fighting/running led to naming all Lamborghini cars after some famous
bulls or some places or families connected to bulls. Respecting this
fact, the car is named after the island in Indonesia, which is famous
for bull races.
The Madura is a
proposal for the first hybrid Lamborghini scheduled for 2016. Doing a
car more efficient and more nature-friendly, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t
be exciting, good-looking and fast. But in my opinion this new
propulsion system should be represented on the looks of the car.
The
body is rather cab-backwards style, which is new for today’s Lambo
range, but as side view silhouette is not strange to Lamborghini, namely
the Lamborghini Silhouette and Urraco had very similar body-cab
compositions.
Proportionally, the
car has rather short wheelbase, and equally long overhangs. The short
wheelbase gives it better agility and driving performance. The long
overhangs on the other hand are visually shortened by playing with thin
layering surfaces which are part of separate body elements.
The
front is very sleek and aerodynamic. It consists of the bonnet, with
electric engine underneath, and spoiler with blades between for more
depth of the design, and better cW result. The headlights are very thin
and horizontally oriented to emphasize the cars’ width.
The
tail is analog to the front. There is again play with more bodies and
blades in between. They intersect by overlapping or flowing parallel.
The spoilers as special features, grow out of the side panels and are
connected with laser beams when braking, as a symbol for the electric
drive.