Oluwafemi Awodele 1 month ago
Overview
Lamborghini Temerario
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the follow-up to the Huracán: welcome the new Lamborghini Temerario, a car that replaces the transcendental, naturally aspirated V10 for [shudders] a battery, three electric motors and a turbo V8. It’s also a car that claims a new-found focus on comfort.
Perhaps it should have been named The Tempest, because swapping one of the finest free-breathing V10s of the modern age for a hybrid V8 and more comfort suggests hell truly is empty, and all the devils are here. At least if you’re a Lamborghini enthusiast.
One of whom is the boss, of course. “The Revuelto is a big success,” Stephan Winkelmann said. “We have three years of orders in house. The fact it’s a plug-in hybrid is very much accepted.” He points to this new Temerario – that follows the Urus SE V8 hybrid – as “closing the circle of hybridising all the line-up”.
Though the V10 ‘twas such stuff as dreams are made on. “I have to admit I loved the car because of the engine,” he said about the Huracán’s banshee-wail 5.2-litre that originally started its service in 2003’s Gallardo (another hugely popular Lambo). So why ditch one of its key USPs, especially now the Audi R8 has departed leaving the ten-cylinder all to Lambo’s bullfighting hands and, as Winkelmann admits, having already done ‘an outstanding job’?
“We had to decide years ago, from scratch, to do something exceptional, completely new,” he added, noting how the Temerario’s ambitions for outright power wouldn’t have “been feasible” with the old nat-asp V10.
What’s past then, is prologue. At the Temerario’s heart sits a new – like, completely fresh, from the ground-up, not-pinched-from-The-Empire – twin-turbo 4.0-litre, flat-plane-crank V8. And lo, at least according to Lamborghini, this V8’s tale would cure deafness. For this completely fresh, from the ground-up, not-pinched-from-The-Empire twin-turbo V8 produces 789bhp on its own, between 9,000rpm and 9,750rpm, on its way to a 10,000rpm redline. Ten. Thousand. RPM. From a turbo V8.
Add said turbo V8 to the three electric motors – one betwixt engine and gearbox, two on the front axle – a 3.8kWh lithium-ion battery and an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox, and you’re looking at the scary end of 907bhp and 590lb ft of torque. A fair whack over what the V10 Huracán in Evo guise could manage (631bhp). 0-62mph? 2.7s. Top speed? 211mph+. Noise? Well, Lamborghini reckons it’s ‘immense’.
Read more: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/farewell-v10-new-lamborghini-temerario-a-907bhp-v8-hybrid