The 2024 Lamborghini Revuelto earns its spot in the family line after Aventador, Diablo, Countach and Miura despite being a hybrid.
Cars most likely to have major powertrain problems. New from the ground up, the Revuelto stands out both as the brand’s flagship and as its first series-produced. It has a lot to live up to – its predecessors notably include the Miura and the Countach – and it has a lot to prove because its drivetrain opens a path that the entire range. It’s about 3 inches longer but its overall proportions haven’t significantly changed; it’s instantly recognizable as a Lamborghini.
“Not for this car,” replied Rouven Mohr, the chief technical officer at Lamborghini, when I asked him if resorting to a smaller engine and/or a pair of turbochargers crossed his mind during the development process. “The V12 is our heritage icon. It would be a mistake from the pure emotional point of view to delete this. There are some examples in the market where our competitors and they were not so happy afterwards,” he added without citing a specific brand or a specific model.
Lamborghini pegs the system’s total output at 1,001 horsepower — you know we’re talking serious power when there’s a comma in the number — and 793 pound-feet of torque. These figures make the 3,907-pound Revuelto the most powerful street-legal, series-produced car the brand has ever released. Hitting 62 mph from a stop takes about 2.5 seconds and top speed checks in somewhere north of 217 mph if you’ve got the tarmac and the guts for it.
The driver faces a three-spoke steering wheel jam-packed with buttons, huge carbon fiber shift paddles mounted on the steering column, and a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster that can be configured to display a wide variety of information like media options, the driving mode selected, and navigation directions. The Y-shaped center console houses the same 8.4-inch, portrait-oriented touchscreen that’s fitted to, though the software is Revuelto-specific, and there’s a 9.
There’s a great deal of electronic wizardry brewing behind the scenes: Lamborghini fitted brake-by-wire technology and a brake energy recuperation system in addition to the usual bouquet of electronic driving aids. There’s torque vectoring on the front axle and rear-wheel steering. Both systems help make the Revuelto nimbler around a bend but it’s the car’s brain that decides when and how much to use which one — imagine trying to do that yourself before every turn.
Speaking of the trunk, it’s where Lamborghini put the charging port. Inconvenient? Sort of, but it’s ultimately inconsequential.
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