**The Pioneering Era of Coupes SUVs: A Look Back**

The coupe SUV genre has become increasingly popular in recent years, with many manufacturers jumping on the bandwagon to create their own versions. However, not all of these modern interpretations are new ideas. In fact, some cars from the 80s were ahead of their time and paved the way for the modern coupes SUVs we know today.

One such car is the Lamborghini LM002, also known as the Rambo Lambo, which was built in 1986. This super-fast off-roader was designed to be an armored warehouse on wheels, with a powerful 5.2-liter V12 engine and a reputation for being virtually indestructible. The LM002's design may seem forgettable today, but its capabilities were truly impressive back in the day.

The Lamborghini LM002 is just one example of how pioneers like Lamborghini were pushing the boundaries of what was possible in car design. Another notable pioneer is the Tucker 48, a luxury car from the 1940s that featured advanced safety technology for its time. The Tucker 48 had a roll bar that went all the way around the car to protect occupants, as well as a steering mechanism behind the front wheels to prevent it from moving backwards in a crash. Its dashboard was also padded with shatterproof glass and features like airbags were still in their infancy.

In contrast to these retro pioneers, modern manufacturers have built upon existing ideas to create new and innovative cars. Porsche is one such manufacturer that has consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in car design. The 959 from 1986 was a groundbreaking supercar that featured sequential turbos to reduce lag and automatic suspension that could adjust ride height depending on speed.

The 959 also showcased advanced technology features, including a rear-mounted engine and a four-wheel-drive system that could automatically send power to the wheel with the most grip. This technology was years ahead of its time, and it laid the groundwork for modern all-wheel-drive systems found in many cars today.

Fast-forward to the present day, and we have the latest crop of fast SUVs from manufacturers like Audi, BMW, and Lamborghini. These cars are designed to offer the best of both worlds: on-road comfort and off-road capability. They often feature advanced suspension systems, all-wheel-drive technologies, and powerful engines that can propel them from 0-60mph in under five seconds.

However, not every manufacturer has made significant contributions to the SUV genre. Porsche's 911 Turbo S is a notable exception, with its incredible speed and handling making it feel like a car that defies the laws of physics. The 918 Spyder is another example of Porsche's innovative spirit, with its hybrid powertrain and advanced aerodynamics making it one of the fastest production cars in the world.

**The Citroen DS: A Pioneer of Comfort**

Another manufacturer that has consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in car design is Citroen. The company's first DS model was launched in 1955, and this iconic car remains one of the most comfortable vehicles on the road today.

One of the DS's most innovative features was its hydro-pneumatic suspension system, which allowed it to maintain a smooth ride over even the worst roads. This technology also enabled the car to power the steering, brakes, clutch, and gearbox, making it incredibly easy to drive. The Citroen DS is still considered one of the most comfortable cars ever built, with many owners reporting hours of stress-free driving.

Interestingly, Rolls-Royce actually used some of these hydro-pneumatic technology in its own cars, demonstrating just how groundbreaking the DS was when it was first introduced. Today, the Citroen DS remains a testament to the company's commitment to innovative design and engineering.

**Conclusion**

The world of car design is constantly evolving, with manufacturers pushing the boundaries of what's possible year after year. From the pioneering Lamborghini LM002 to the modern Porsche 911 Turbo S, there are countless examples of cars that have helped shape the SUV genre into what it is today. By studying these pioneers and innovators, we can gain a deeper appreciation for the art and science of car design, and look forward to seeing what the future holds for this exciting industry.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encar makers don't like to take risks like porsche with the shape of the 911. it hasn't changed since the sixes really has it but there have been a few times when manufacturers went a bit rogue they took some brave pills and built a car that no one saw coming some of these were huge successes and others were total flops and a few of them were so futuristic that they still feel modern now so here's my pick of the cars that were way ahead of their time buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site if you imagine an aston martin you're probably thinking of a coupe with gorgeous curves right you know like a db-11 or advantage well how about this weird looking four-door wedge it's the 1976 aston martin lagonda and with that design it must have looked like it fell off the space station but it's crazy angular looks aren't the only reason it was ahead of its time it got a huge digital instrument display inside just like some of the huge touchscreens you get today only without the touch bit obviously this tech never really worked properly though it's a bright surprise and it was so new and expensive that aston blew the budget when they were developing it and not only by a couple of grand either the whole lagonda project went over budget by 400 you're not going to be able to cover that overspend by finding some money down the back of your couch now are you building electric cars is a tough business just ask elon musk though it does do rather well general motors had a stab at it way before tesla when they made the ev1 in 1996. it had 140 horsepower and it could do 100 miles between charges which isn't too far off some of the electric cars of today like the mini electric and the honda e unlike these cars though the ev1 was super aerodynamic and had plastic body panels to reduce weight it even had keyless ignition and air conditioning you could program to come on at the same time every day just like in a brand new tesla but general motors decided to repossess every ev1 in the late 90s and it had most of them crushed why did they do that well there are actually plenty of conspiracy theories out there about it but i guess we'll never really know the truth but what do you think happened let me know in the comments below i'll read them because i'm interested i love the audi a2 and i'm actually thinking about buying one but i'm put off slightly because whenever i point them out to my girlfriend she goes yeah it's horrible now part of the reason is because it looks a bit like a bar of soap on wheels but it's weird shape means that it's mega roomy inside in fact it's made almost completely out of aluminium as well so it should never rust and it comes in at just 830 kilograms which is really quite light this means that it's actually quite efficient especially the diesel models there's one version of the a2 which can do more than 90 miles per gallon the problem the car faced when it was on sale was the fact that being built out of aluminium meant it was mega expensive to make and audi just couldn't build the a2 on a regular production line it had to have its own special production line and its weird looks meant it was never a big sales success it's a shame really because i think it's a brilliant car should i get one should i do i need yet another car once again let me know in the comments below i have too many cars soon at this rate do you remember the rover street wise maybe your grandmother had one i remember when i worked on auto express magazine we had one as a long-termer no one really wanted to run it it was actually a car that was pretty ahead of its time if you think about it no one back then really had a thought of building a chunky off-roady hatchback when it first came out in 2003 so its unpainted bumpers and jacked up suspension looked a bit weird back then but it actually inspired a whole bunch of brand new cars that follow the same pattern think about it the audi a1 city carver the ford fiesta active the ford focus active the kia x seed and the honda jazz cross star there's loads of them nowadays all that from rover that was going bust at the time i mean who'd have thought it obviously none of the cars i've mentioned any good off-roading so if you want to see some proper off-roading click on the pop-up banner up there to watch me test an amg g63 a jeep wrangler and a suzuki chimney across a proper off-road muddy course even if you're not american you're probably well aware of what a pontiac aztec is it's the car that walter white drove in the series breaking bad but this suv from 2000 was a complete sales disaster and it's easy to see why really i mean look at it look as though pontiac couldn't decide whether to put the headlights on the bonnet or on the bumpers so they just did both it reminds you of some kind of demented pokemon actually but the aztec was actually way ahead of its time it was one of the first coupe suvs ever made now if you don't believe me check it out from the side it really reminds me of a bmw x6 it was also full of life styley features just like modern suvs you could fold the back seats down and shove in a blow-up mattress i'm not sure what you'd be using that for and you could get it with a built-in tent brilliant it seems like everybody is building fast suvs these days there's the bedley bentayga the porsche kn the aston martin dbx and the lamborghini urus but the urus isn't lamborghini's first suv oh no lamborghini was way ahead of the curve because it built a super fast off-roader back in 1986. way before anyone else gave it a shot it was called the lm002 or should that be lm002 or is it lm002 or lm002 or just lm2 the name's a bit forgettable nowhere near as cool as countdash or diablo or hurricane or aventador is it but you'll never forget what it looks like it's basically an armored warehouse on wheels and it was powered by a 5.2 liter v12 from the contact i think i said kuntas wrong before i said countach that's because i'm from the midlands we don't know how to pronounce carnage properly i'm sorry if that wasn't enough for you lamborghini could even fit it with one of its 7.2 liter v12 powerboat engines instead no wonder some people called it the rambo lambo click on the pop-out banner up there to watch me drag race a lamborghini aventador svj against a porsche 911 turbo s you've probably never heard of the tucker torpedo no not a trucker torpedo that's something else the tucker torpedo was a super advanced luxury car from back in the 1940s its official name was the tucker 48 and it was packed with the kind of safety technology that wouldn't appear in other cars for years it had a roll bar that went all the way around the car to protect him and the steering mechanism was behind the front wheels so it didn't move backwards and impale you in a crash the windscreen was made out of shatterproof glass and the dashboard was padded to protect your head a bit like a really basic airbag it never went into mass production though so only 51 cars were ever made porsche has built plenty of game-changing cars over the years the new 911 turbo s is a great example it's so fast it feels like it defies the laws of physics also there's the 918 spyder which is one of the fastest hypercars ever but you can trace both of these cars back to the epic 959 from 1986. this was the first four wheel drive supercar and it could automatically send power to whichever wheels had the most grip it was also one of the first ever cars to have sequential turbos to reduce lag and it had kevlar body panels like a formula one car its suspension would even automatically change the car's ride height depending what speed you were doing and all this was back in 1986 when mobile phones look like house bricks and could only make calls the 959 is just incredible now if you want to click on the pop out banner in the top right hand corner of the screen to watch me race the 911 turbo s cabriolet against a turbo s coupe and a gt3 ds may well be a new french brand but it comes from citron ds the first of which came out back in 1955. and back in the day this corner only looked way ahead of its time it was mechanically ahead of its time as well it had so many cool features the best was its clever hydro pneumatic suspension this meant it could keep itself level over rubbish roads covered in potholes citron also used these hydraulics to power the steering the brakes the clutch and the gearbox you barely had to do anything yourself really this meant it was super easy and very relaxing to drive even today it's still one of the most comfortable cars i've ever driven it's up there with the rolls-royce phantom interestingly rolls royce actually used the citroen suspension in some of its cars if you enjoyed the video please give it a like also let me know of other videos you'd like to see in the comments below if you click over there you can watch some more videos and if you click on that box there you can sign up to the car wow newsletter and we'll keep you updated on all the latest and greatest new car news so you're fully informed of what's going on in the world of motoring when we're not uploading these videos sorry not totally freecar makers don't like to take risks like porsche with the shape of the 911. it hasn't changed since the sixes really has it but there have been a few times when manufacturers went a bit rogue they took some brave pills and built a car that no one saw coming some of these were huge successes and others were total flops and a few of them were so futuristic that they still feel modern now so here's my pick of the cars that were way ahead of their time buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site if you imagine an aston martin you're probably thinking of a coupe with gorgeous curves right you know like a db-11 or advantage well how about this weird looking four-door wedge it's the 1976 aston martin lagonda and with that design it must have looked like it fell off the space station but it's crazy angular looks aren't the only reason it was ahead of its time it got a huge digital instrument display inside just like some of the huge touchscreens you get today only without the touch bit obviously this tech never really worked properly though it's a bright surprise and it was so new and expensive that aston blew the budget when they were developing it and not only by a couple of grand either the whole lagonda project went over budget by 400 you're not going to be able to cover that overspend by finding some money down the back of your couch now are you building electric cars is a tough business just ask elon musk though it does do rather well general motors had a stab at it way before tesla when they made the ev1 in 1996. it had 140 horsepower and it could do 100 miles between charges which isn't too far off some of the electric cars of today like the mini electric and the honda e unlike these cars though the ev1 was super aerodynamic and had plastic body panels to reduce weight it even had keyless ignition and air conditioning you could program to come on at the same time every day just like in a brand new tesla but general motors decided to repossess every ev1 in the late 90s and it had most of them crushed why did they do that well there are actually plenty of conspiracy theories out there about it but i guess we'll never really know the truth but what do you think happened let me know in the comments below i'll read them because i'm interested i love the audi a2 and i'm actually thinking about buying one but i'm put off slightly because whenever i point them out to my girlfriend she goes yeah it's horrible now part of the reason is because it looks a bit like a bar of soap on wheels but it's weird shape means that it's mega roomy inside in fact it's made almost completely out of aluminium as well so it should never rust and it comes in at just 830 kilograms which is really quite light this means that it's actually quite efficient especially the diesel models there's one version of the a2 which can do more than 90 miles per gallon the problem the car faced when it was on sale was the fact that being built out of aluminium meant it was mega expensive to make and audi just couldn't build the a2 on a regular production line it had to have its own special production line and its weird looks meant it was never a big sales success it's a shame really because i think it's a brilliant car should i get one should i do i need yet another car once again let me know in the comments below i have too many cars soon at this rate do you remember the rover street wise maybe your grandmother had one i remember when i worked on auto express magazine we had one as a long-termer no one really wanted to run it it was actually a car that was pretty ahead of its time if you think about it no one back then really had a thought of building a chunky off-roady hatchback when it first came out in 2003 so its unpainted bumpers and jacked up suspension looked a bit weird back then but it actually inspired a whole bunch of brand new cars that follow the same pattern think about it the audi a1 city carver the ford fiesta active the ford focus active the kia x seed and the honda jazz cross star there's loads of them nowadays all that from rover that was going bust at the time i mean who'd have thought it obviously none of the cars i've mentioned any good off-roading so if you want to see some proper off-roading click on the pop-up banner up there to watch me test an amg g63 a jeep wrangler and a suzuki chimney across a proper off-road muddy course even if you're not american you're probably well aware of what a pontiac aztec is it's the car that walter white drove in the series breaking bad but this suv from 2000 was a complete sales disaster and it's easy to see why really i mean look at it look as though pontiac couldn't decide whether to put the headlights on the bonnet or on the bumpers so they just did both it reminds you of some kind of demented pokemon actually but the aztec was actually way ahead of its time it was one of the first coupe suvs ever made now if you don't believe me check it out from the side it really reminds me of a bmw x6 it was also full of life styley features just like modern suvs you could fold the back seats down and shove in a blow-up mattress i'm not sure what you'd be using that for and you could get it with a built-in tent brilliant it seems like everybody is building fast suvs these days there's the bedley bentayga the porsche kn the aston martin dbx and the lamborghini urus but the urus isn't lamborghini's first suv oh no lamborghini was way ahead of the curve because it built a super fast off-roader back in 1986. way before anyone else gave it a shot it was called the lm002 or should that be lm002 or is it lm002 or lm002 or just lm2 the name's a bit forgettable nowhere near as cool as countdash or diablo or hurricane or aventador is it but you'll never forget what it looks like it's basically an armored warehouse on wheels and it was powered by a 5.2 liter v12 from the contact i think i said kuntas wrong before i said countach that's because i'm from the midlands we don't know how to pronounce carnage properly i'm sorry if that wasn't enough for you lamborghini could even fit it with one of its 7.2 liter v12 powerboat engines instead no wonder some people called it the rambo lambo click on the pop-out banner up there to watch me drag race a lamborghini aventador svj against a porsche 911 turbo s you've probably never heard of the tucker torpedo no not a trucker torpedo that's something else the tucker torpedo was a super advanced luxury car from back in the 1940s its official name was the tucker 48 and it was packed with the kind of safety technology that wouldn't appear in other cars for years it had a roll bar that went all the way around the car to protect him and the steering mechanism was behind the front wheels so it didn't move backwards and impale you in a crash the windscreen was made out of shatterproof glass and the dashboard was padded to protect your head a bit like a really basic airbag it never went into mass production though so only 51 cars were ever made porsche has built plenty of game-changing cars over the years the new 911 turbo s is a great example it's so fast it feels like it defies the laws of physics also there's the 918 spyder which is one of the fastest hypercars ever but you can trace both of these cars back to the epic 959 from 1986. this was the first four wheel drive supercar and it could automatically send power to whichever wheels had the most grip it was also one of the first ever cars to have sequential turbos to reduce lag and it had kevlar body panels like a formula one car its suspension would even automatically change the car's ride height depending what speed you were doing and all this was back in 1986 when mobile phones look like house bricks and could only make calls the 959 is just incredible now if you want to click on the pop out banner in the top right hand corner of the screen to watch me race the 911 turbo s cabriolet against a turbo s coupe and a gt3 ds may well be a new french brand but it comes from citron ds the first of which came out back in 1955. and back in the day this corner only looked way ahead of its time it was mechanically ahead of its time as well it had so many cool features the best was its clever hydro pneumatic suspension this meant it could keep itself level over rubbish roads covered in potholes citron also used these hydraulics to power the steering the brakes the clutch and the gearbox you barely had to do anything yourself really this meant it was super easy and very relaxing to drive even today it's still one of the most comfortable cars i've ever driven it's up there with the rolls-royce phantom interestingly rolls royce actually used the citroen suspension in some of its cars if you enjoyed the video please give it a like also let me know of other videos you'd like to see in the comments below if you click over there you can watch some more videos and if you click on that box there you can sign up to the car wow newsletter and we'll keep you updated on all the latest and greatest new car news so you're fully informed of what's going on in the world of motoring when we're not uploading these videos sorry not totally free\n"