Iranians reverse engineered a Murcielago SV, wants to make supercars
Have you ever asked yourself how long would it take to reverse engineer a Lamborghini Murcielago SV supercar? Apparently, it’s four years because that’s how long it took for a team of Iranian engineers to make an exact copy of the Italian masterpiece, key word here being ‘exact’.
At least that’s what news agency RT reported, quoting leader and designer of the creative team Masoud Moradi that “all parts of the body, inside the car and precise mechanics of the car are manufactured and mounted based on the original of Murcielago platform and its chassis is also one and one with the original chassis.” * the interior seems a bit off, though.
From that, we can only assume that in the middle of this gleaming yellow car is indeed a V12. Gearbox?
What’s the point of all this? For what reverse engineering is usually used for – to learn. In this case to get the technical knowledge and construction know-how “to indigenise them”. Interesting.
The Iran automotive industry is large, in fact it’s the largest in the Middle East with a TIV of 1.7 million units of vehicles in 2017 (overall), 1.3 million of it made up of passenger cars. In that same year, the industry assembled approximately 1.5 million vehicles both for the passenger and commercial market.
… Whatever it is, the Iranians did a fair bit better than this Aventador-looking Honda Accord.
