Saying a Lamborghini Urus and a 20-year-old Chevy Tahoe are both SUVs is like saying a sumo wrestler and long distance runner are both athletes. You almost never hear anyone mention the two in the same breath, but a custom shop in British Columbia is about to change all that.
No, it’s not about to enter a 400-lbs Japanese guy in a diaper in the Vancouver Marathon, but is creating one of the silliest SUV mashups we’ve ever seen. The guys at Trickfactory Customs are dropping the body from a wrecked Lamborghini Urus onto the frame of a 2003 Tahoe and you can watch the whole thing happen on YouTube.
Trickfactory acquired a rolled Urus because it needed the Lambo’s twin-turbo V8 drivetrain for another project, but even though the Urus’s shell was badly damaged, the team couldn’t bear the idea of throwing it away, so boss Tim hatched plan for the crazy body swap. Following some research he realized that the wheelbase of the second-generation Tahoe introduced in 2000 was pretty close to that of Lamborghini’s SUV, and of course, the Tahoe’s body-on-frame construction would help when it came to mounting the unibody Lambo’s shell on top.
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With an ancient truck chassis the resulting Frankenstein’s monster won’t have hope of handling as well as the original Urus on the road, or get it up Pikes Peak anywhere near as quickly. But it could be pretty handy in the dirt, especially with the modifications Trickfactory has planned, which go beyond visual details like the cut-down tube-frame doors, and include 12-inch (305 mm) of suspension travel and enormous 40-inch-tall (1 m) tires.
And it’ll also be seriously fast. The Tahoe is already equipped with an LS V8, but the build team is throwing on a twin-turbo kit they had lying around, and is shooting for 900-1,000 hp (1,014 PS). That’s a tidy upgrade on the stock Lambo’s 641 hp (650 PS) motor, providing it all holds together. This isn’t the only Urus build currently taking place on YouTube, because another channel, goonzquad, is fixing up white one that appears to have been involved in a police shootout. But the Trickfactory project is definitely the most ambitious and least sensible, which sounds like two good reasons to keep tabs on the progress.
