Raging Bull brand’s new flagship V12 hybrid hypercar will hit 100km/h in 2.5sec
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The eggs of the V12 supercar formula have been scrambled with the all-new Lamborghini Revuelto hypercar, which finally made its world debut overnight.
The plug-in hybrid Revuelto – the replacement for the Italian performance car brand’s long-running Aventador flagship – will boast more than 1000hp in its most aggressive modes, thanks to three electric motors and permanent all-wheel drive.
Lamborghini claims the Revuelto will run to 100km/h in less than 2.5 seconds and to 200km/h in less than seven, and will hit a top speed in excess of 350km/h.
Already in pre-production at Sant’Agata Bolognese, the Revuelto is based around a forged carbon-fibre chassis and can run for a very limited distance as a pure EV.
While it’s named after a fighting bull, the word ‘Revuelto’ means ‘mixed up’ in Spanish, but in modern Spanish slang it means ‘scrambled eggs’, which Lamborghini president Stephan Winkelmann is quite pleased with.
“Revuelto. It’s the name of a fighting bull, in the best Lamborghini tradition,” Winkelmann said.
“It fought in the arena of Barcelona in 1880. He was a wild fighting bull and jumped into the alley eight times in his time.
“There are 12 very thick books of bull-fighting history. I’ve read the stories of all of them,” Winkelmann explained.
“In the modern vernacular, Revuelto means ‘scrambled eggs’, but Revuelto also means ‘mixed up’ in English and this is the best way of explaining it, with the blending of the two souls of this car.”
Winkelmann insists the “mixed up” part of the Revuelto name is perfect for a plug-in hybrid with 13 different driving modes, ranging from pure EV mode to a cruising mode, complete with adaptive cruise control, to a hard-core track mode.
Offering up to 757kW of power with all its jungle drums beating at full speed, the Revuelto is already sold out until at least midway through 2025.
It’s 130kg heavier than the Aventador, despite adding more than 200kg worth of electric motors, lithium-ion battery pouch cells and an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission.
Despite the added weight, the Revuelto has the best power-to-weight ratio of any Lamborghini production car in its 60-year history, at 1.75kg/hp.
The 6.5-litre naturally-aspirated V12 alone delivers 607kW of power and 725Nm of torque and revs to 9250rpm, but the Revuelto adds 110kW/350Nm from each of its two front electric motors and 110kW/150Nm from another electric motor at the rear.
The combination of combustion engine and electric motors gives the Revuelto, which was codenamed LB744, finely tuned torque-vectoring, with the electric motors adding lightning-fast braking or accelerating of selected wheels to help it around corners faster.
It even has a drift mode, which would have been a terrifying thought for anybody who had driven most of its predecessors, especially the Diablo and the Murcielago.
“The type of motors we use give us high power density, high recuperation and torque vectoring,” Lamborghini chief technology officer Rouven Mohr said.
“Not torque vectoring by brakes, like you’ve seen others do, but real torque vectoring with the torque of the e-motors adding torque or recuperating torque in five milliseconds to help the handling.
“The reactiveness of turn-in in handling, that kind of turn-in has not been seen before, especially with a car this size.”
While Lamborghini talks about the Revuelto’s ability to run as an EV, that ability is limited and very far from the reason for its electrification in the first place.
Its battery is so small that it can be recharged by idling the V12 in just six minutes, and will provide less than 10km of EV running.
Instead, the 3.8kWh battery is more about fast charging and discharging, with 4500 Watts per kilogram, and adding cleaner boost to the high-revving V12.
Lamborghini says the Revuelto is 30 per cent more powerful than the naturally-aspirated Aventador, yet emits 30 per cent less CO2.
It has not completed the Revuelto’s homologation process, but that would reduce its CO2 emissions from 442 to 309g/km and its fuel consumption 18 to 12.6L/100km.
“We want to hybridise all of our line-up from ’23 and ’24, and we will reduce our emissions by 50 per cent compared to today,” said Mohr.
While the Revuelto is Lamborghini’s first full-time hybrid model, it will be joined by a new Huracan in late 2024 (also with plug-in hybrid power), its first EV in 2028 and an Urus SUV replacement in 2029.
Excluding variants like the upcoming Huracan Sterrato, Urus S and Urus Performante, that will give Lamborghini a four-model line-up for the first time in its history. (Ferrari, meanwhile, has seven models.)
“For 50 years we had the development of the Lamborghini DNA,” said.
“The idea was born mainly out of the Countach, with a gearbox in the middle and a longitudinal engine in the back, and this was the layout for more than 50 years.
“The Revuelto will have the battery in the middle in the central tunnel and we turned the engine 180 degrees and now we have the gearbox in the back.”
Lamborghini Revuelto interior
There are firsts for the Lamborghini Revuelto here, and the main one is the move towards practicality and the ability for smartphones to run the multimedia system.
There’s a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster ahead of the driver, an 8.4-inch central multimedia screen and a 9.1-inch display just for the passenger, and both the driver and the passenger can swipe information from one display to another.
There is a new kind of steering wheel to go with the electric power steering, with four different rotary knobs that feel mechanical – two high on the wheel to modify the driving modes and one on the right to select different hybrid, recharging and performance modes, including Citta, Strada, Sport and Corsa.
“The objective was to create a spaceship, opening the door for our new design DNA,” said Lamborghini design boss Mitja Borkert.
“The first glimpse of the interior shows a car that is a quantum leap forward, with scissor doors, craziness, a lot of Diablo inspiration from the wings, and the Aventador is still very deep in our hearts.”
It’s an interior with a lot more space from the 2700mm wheelbase, and there is room for two carry-on trolley bags in the frunk and a set of golf clubs behind the seats.
The cabin has space for phones and wallets, and there is 84mm more legroom and 23mm more headroom than in the Aventador.
Lamborghini Revuelto design
Once you get over the shock of the nose and the extremely stretched wheelbase of the Lamborghini Revuelto, the most shocking part of the design is that the engine is exposed.
There is no engine cover for the 6.5-litre V12, with the cylinder heads proudly standing out from the bodywork.
“The two design lines all embrace the engine,” Borkert said. “It is not even covered and we left it visible, like a motorcycle (Lamborghini owns Ducati, which is a 15-minute drive from its HQ).
“There is no cover on the engine. It is exposed. The black cylinder-heads are open to the elements.”
The Revuelto is a long car, and it shows. It’s 79mm longer in the wheelbase than its predecessor, and has a different silhouette.
“There are new proportions,” Borkert admitted. “It’s a little bit longer but it looks more complicated.
“We are working with a shark nose, with all the lines pointing to the centre of the front, and kind of hiding the front lights in a mean way.
“Sant’Agata is the epicentre of supersports design and we stick to two important pillars: the silhouette and the sculpture of the front view, with a strong inclination of the windows.”
There are flying buttresses for the first time, progressing down from the roofline to the rear quarter while allowing airflow through to the engine cover.
The doors and buttresses are made from aluminium, while the roof, bonnet and engine area cover are carbon-fibre and the front wings are plastic.
The Revuelto will come with standard paint colours including blu oeanos, bianco siderale, arancio apodis, giallo, verde viper, verde turbine, viola pasifae and grigio acheso, but there are more than 400 optional colours and more than 70 interior colours.
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