Lamborghini selected Monterey Automobile Week to disclose the successor to its essential Huracán mannequin – ‘the greatest-selling tremendous sports activities automobile’ within the model’s historical past. Launched in 2014, the mid-engined Huracán was ripe for alternative, and given how a lot the world has moved on previously decade, its alternative seemed more likely to incorporate new applied sciences and approaches.
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The brand new Lamborghini Temerario continues what the corporate calls its Excessive Efficiency Electrified Car technique (HPEV), following the flagship Revuelto plug-in hybrid mannequin. The corporate now has a completely hybridised line-up, should you bear in mind the brand new Urus SE as nicely, placing it a step forward of a lot of its shut opponents.
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The brand new automobile retains the mid-engined format that has outlined each sporting Lamborghini for the reason that Miura. Along with a twin turbo-charged V8, there’s additionally a robust hybrid system which creates sufficient energy for a 0-62mph time of two.7 seconds and a class-leading prime pace of 210mph. As famous by Lamborghini’s Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann, ‘each new Lamborghini should surpass its forerunners in efficiency phrases,’ a formidable engineering and technical problem.
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As a part of this relentless quest for extra energy, Lamborghini claims the Temerario is the ‘first and solely manufacturing tremendous sports activities automobile engine capable of attain 10,000 rpm’. If the residents of Monterey discovered Lamborghini’s fleet of company Uruses (Uruii?) to be a bit of on the shouty facet, count on the Temerario to trigger much more of a ruckus.
We spoke to Lamborghini’s Design Director, Mitja Borkert, in regards to the genesis of the brand new mannequin.
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Wallpaper*: Describe the design strategy behind the brand new Temerario
Mitja Borkert: It was a private mission to create one thing that was agile, but with a compact quantity. The Temerario continues the brand new design language began by Revuelto – it’s about giving adrenaline a form.
W*: What are the distinctive design components of a contemporary Lamborghini?
MB: We’re very recognisable – particularly our silhouette. You may see this within the Gallardo in 2003, by way of to the Huracán in 2014 and now its successor, the Temerario from 2025. The brand new automobile is 40mm longer than its predecessor and has a much bigger cabin because of this, though it’s nonetheless 273mm shorter than the Revuelto. The shapes and ‘muscle tissues’ of this automobile are very sensuous, nearly human.
The daylight working gentle doubles as an aero air consumption
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W*: What’s your typical design course of to form such a particular sports activities automobile?
MB: We at all times begin with sketches. For this automobile, the hexagon was the design aspect we begin with. You may see it within the facet air consumption, the hexagonal daylight working lights, the exhaust, the taillights. The automobile is split into two, with very clear traces on the higher surfaces, and a decrease stage that catches shadow for extra drama. We now have a really distinctive lighting technique for all three of our fashions, Urus, Revuelto and Temerario. It’s crucial that our automobiles every have their very own distinctive character.
The Lamborghini Temerario’s hexagonal taillight
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W*: Are there are notable particulars that set this automobile aside?
MB: The way in which the rear tyres are uncovered, for instance, or the deep facet intakes. Additionally, we don’t wish to comply with the development of getting gentle bars throughout your entire rear of the automobile. You’ll additionally see that the hexagonal DRL on the entrance of the automobile are additionally aero ducts, channelling air to an exit just under the primary lights.
The rear of the automobile is nearly like a spaceship – the V8 engine is on the coronary heart of the design. We now have lots of personalisation decisions as nicely, with 20” wheels on the entrance and 21” on the rear and three completely different wheel decisions, together with the primary full carbon fibre wheel and a hexagon-based design as nicely.
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W*: Will there be different choices?
MB: Sure, we’re going to launch two variations of the automobile proper from the beginning, with a track-focused light-weight package deal that features completely different design components, a brand new splitter and rocker panel, carbon rims, bonnet and rear wing.
W*: What’s going to the inside be like – it’s but to be revealed?
MB: Sure, it’s designed to really feel like a cockpit, with a start-stop button, switches and rotary controls that really feel like a jet. We’ve at all times believed in creating very mechanical components in our interiors. It’ll be a spaceship on the skin, alien on the within. There’ll be three screens, together with one for a passenger, with very distinctive and completely different graphics. Additionally, there’ll be many color choices, maybe round 400.
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W*: How did the hybrid system inform your design strategy?
MB: It had no impression by way of design. We’re opening the door to the following chapter of Lamborghini. This automobile may be very compact and agile, as brief as doable. It’s additionally the primary tremendous sports activities Lamborghini to have the mandated ADAS (Superior driver-assistance system) know-how.
W*: Is it robust to combine new applied sciences like this?
MB: Sure, it’s an actual problem for designers. However in the end you want boundaries, or else it will be boring.
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