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Old 04-08-2004, 03:09 AM   #35
McLarenF1God
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During the deisgn and concept phase it was always called the 'Cheetah' and was capable of very extreme off road conditions despite what any of you say (Google search it or something). When the US military asked for companies to build a new off road multi-use vehicle it came down to AM General and Lamborghini. The US eventually chose AM Generals hummer quite simply because of the cheaper price. The LM002 was much too expensive for obvious reasons and seemed unecessarily too 'equipped' for what the US military had in mind. Lamborghini wouldn;t let the LM002 go to waste so they put it into production for the public to buy, where 'public' means rich-guy-that-likes-to-pretend-he-is-an-off-roading-master. I do know that it was very off-road worthy...although I'm not sure how long it would last before something went wrong. Like someone above me said, it could have easily been equal to or superior to Hummer.

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