{"id":76191,"date":"2024-08-27T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76191"},"modified":"2024-08-27T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:03:14","slug":"lamborghini-temerario-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76191","title":{"rendered":"How the Lamborghini Temerario is more than a 907-hp hybrid that revs to 10 grand – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. \u2013 A Lamborghini supercar<\/a> pretty much seems like the exact opposite of a daily driver, but apparently, one in three sold are just that. Considering Lamborghini<\/a> sold 29,700 Huracans<\/a>, that\u2019s nearly 10,000 owners who actually care about such things as interior space. Indeed, that was the most common request from owners as Lamborghini went about creating the next-generation \u201centry\u201d model that would become the Temerario<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lamborghini product manager Paolo Racchetti felt their pain. At a rakish 6-foot-plus, Racchetti said that he couldn\u2019t fit inside the Huracan with a helmet on \u2013 he had to awkwardly list inboard to fit. Helmet fitment is obviously not a daily driver complaint, but Racchetti said that owners also took their Huracans to the track once or twice per year on average (those with an STO did so once or twice per month). For both the track and the daily grind, extra space for Racchetti\u2019s helmeted noggin was squeezed out by hollow casting the Temerario\u2019s aluminum structure and using larger components with fewer pieces and less welding. It\u2019s 24% stronger as a result, too. Lamborghini also freed up some cargo space behind the seats, another customer request. Between that and the frunk, you\u2019re now more likely to take your Lamborghini on a road trip<\/a>. A new \u201cComfort\u201d seat helps, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have widened the mission of the car, made it more versatile,\u201d Racchetti said, adding the visibility was also improved and more camera views added at the behest of customers. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At the same time, all that sure feels more like \u201cwould be nice\u201d stuff rather than legitimate beefs. The Temerario is a still a Lamborghini, but it\u2019s also a very different type of Lamborghini than the Huracan it replaces.<\/p>\n

It all starts with the engine. Racchetti said they needed to up the Huracan\u2019s V10, but adding displacement didn\u2019t make sense and adding cylinders would make it a V12, thereby invading the Revuelto<\/a>\u2019s territory. At the same time, Lamborghini wanted the car to be smaller, and shrinking the engine would do just that while lowering the center of gravity in the process. It would also counteract adding a whole bunch of weight elsewhere, but more on that in a minute.<\/p>\n

The result is a V8 with a pair of enormous turbochargers placed in a hot-V formation between the cylinder banks. Big-old turbos tend to create big-old turbo lag, but the first of three motors, integrated between engine and eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, fills in the torque gap while the turbos spool up. Now, there\u2019s really not much that\u2019s novel about any of that, but before bemoaning the naturally aspirated V10, know we\u2019re not done yet. Thanks to a flat-plane crank and \u201creally complicated technical solutions,\u201d according to Racchetti, the Temerario\u2019s turbocharged V8 revs to 10,000 rpm. Hello! If you can get a turbo engine to crack 7 grand, you\u2019re cooking with gas. But 10,000?! It should sound incredible. Racchetti indicated that it does indeed, especially thanks to the pair of snorkus induction tubes that pipe sound back toward the cabin like a pair of canons aimed at your back side.<\/p>\n

Peak engine output of 789 horsepower is delivered at 9,000 to 9,750 rpm. The Huracan Evo\u2019s V10 managed 631 hp at 8,000 rpm. Oh, but the Lamborghini Temerario is not done. Those 789 hp go only to the rear axle. Each front wheel gets its own 110-kilowatt electric motor, thereby creating a torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system. The overall concept of electric front, gas back isn\u2019t that different from the Acura NSX<\/a>. The overall output sure is: 907 horsepower. Lamborghini says it\u2019ll hit 62 mph in 2.7 seconds, so a 2.5-second 0-60 is possible.<\/p>\n

Racchetti said that there are \u201clots of opportunities for the future\u201d because this is the powertrain\u2019s starting point. There is room to grow for both engine and motors.<\/p>\n

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As with all modern performance cars, there are multiple drive modes. Let\u2019s talk about two of them. First is Drift mode, which doesn\u2019t just turn off the front motors and let you have at it, but rather assists you in driving like a hero or hooligan, depending on your point of view, to let you more safely have smoky fun. The opposite of that would be EV mode, whereby the engine takes a break for those times when you need to sneak into the center of an EV-only European city center or sneak out of the house for a weekend rendezvous in that city with your mistress. I\u2019m just spit balling scenarios here.<\/p>\n

The battery<\/a> pack is pretty small at 3.8 kilowatt-hours, so you won\u2019t be sneaking around for very long. Lamborghini doesn\u2019t have an EPA<\/a> estimate, but it\u2019ll almost certainly be in the single digits. The Revuelto manages only 6 miles. The battery itself is packaging within the tunnel that previously would\u2019ve housed the drive shaft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work we\u2019ve done in packaging is incredible,\u201d Racchetti said. He also indicated that cooling everything was a herculean task as you have the engine, the turbos, the transmission, the brakes<\/a>, the battery and the motors to cool down.<\/p>\n

As Racchetti provides a tour of the car\u2019s exterior, pointing out the many seemingly subtle aerodynamic enhancements that altogether increase downforce by 104% over the Huracan, it\u2019s striking just how restrained, and well, classy the Temerario is for a Lamborghini. The electric green version shown in our original reveal story is perhaps less so, but the matte navy blue example shown at the Quail during Monterey<\/a> Car Week points to a cleaner and more streamlined appearance, especially when compared to the wild Revuelto. It also stands out because <\/em>of this, as supercars all start to look alike after awhile with their wedge shapes, aerodynamic flourishes and carbon -festooned body work. The Temerario is still a Lamborghini, but it\u2019s just a little more grown up, and perhaps a little more appropriate for that daily drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. \u2013 A Lamborghini supercar pretty much seems like the exact opposite of a daily driver, but apparently, one in three sold are just that. Considering Lamborghini sold 29,700 Huracans, that\u2019s nearly 10,000 owners who actually care about such things as interior space. Indeed, that was the most common request from owners as Lamborghini […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}