Start with what the Lamborghini Asterion is: a 2-door coupé with 5.2 L V10, built from 2014, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Filippo Perini.
The story
The Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4 (LPI being an abbreviation for Longitudinale Posteriore Ibrido) is a concept hybrid car manufactured by Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini, which was unveiled at the 2014 Paris Motor Show. The car is named after a Minotaur called Asterion and was to be Lamborghini's first hybrid model. The half man – half bull Minotaur was chosen keeping in mind Lamborghini's tradition of naming their cars after a bull while alluding to its usage of different modes of power.
What is underneath
The engine is 5.2 L V10. On the scales it comes to 1800 kg. Drive goes through a 7-speed LDF dual clutch. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Camaro, the Ferrari 488. Nearby in the Lamborghini catalogue sit the Lamborghini Calà and the Lamborghini Marco Polo.