Lamborghini Temerario Review 2025: Video

I realized three crucial issues on the launch of the Huracán-succeeding Lamborghini Temerario:

• The Temerario’s finger-follower diamond-like coated (DLC) valvetrain can help greater than 11,000 rpm, if crucial.
• Round 25 % of Huracan homeowners “day by day drive” their vehicles, based on Lamborghini.
• Lamborghini Chief Technical Officer, Reuven Mohr, owns each a Honda S2000 and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV.

Though the Urus is the automotive that introduced Lamborghini quantity gross sales, it’s simple to argue that the Huracán was the automotive that gave Lamborghini its trendy identification. The entry-level, mid-engined supercar was Lambo’s coronary heart and soul, instantly tied with the snarling, haunting harmonics of its departed 5.2-liter V-10. In brief, it is a particularly powerful act to observe.

Photograph by: Chris Rosales / Motor1

Photograph by: Chris Rosales / Motor1

Enter the Temerario. With an all-new twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 that revs to 10,000 rpm, and a Revuelto-derived hybrid system, this automotive couldn’t be extra totally different from the Huracán. This radical departure for Lambo is the most important for the reason that authentic Gallardo 22 years in the past; an evolution from pure, screaming emotion into cautious, calculated technical ascendancy with a sprinkle of animalism.

A Huracán successor? It’s nearer to revolution.

Firstly, the Temerario is greater than the sum of its elements. Actually. Based on Mohr, the true “secret” of the Temerario lies in its software program; the best way it approaches a nook, reacts to driver inputs, delivers energy, and its total really feel. It is all rigorously specified by computerized strata.

At least 15 management models converse to one another from all corners of the Temerario’s kingdom. The electrical motors converse to the traction management, which speaks to the brake-by-wire system, which additionally speaks to the “vertical management unit,” which then speaks to torque vectoring—you get the thought. The Internet of Issues that makes up the dynamic image of the Temerario is huge and endlessly sophisticated.

With the way it’s wired up, the Temerario actively controls cornering angle at any stage of the nook with a cavernous chest of instruments, although it most closely leverages its three electrical motors. One motor exists between the engine and gearbox, and one other pair of axial flux motors management every entrance wheel, all powered by a 3.8-kilowatt-hour battery pack. Each half is derived from the Revuelto, and with it, Mohr says, the Temerario can drive in virtually any trend, with a specific concentrate on approachability.

The entrance motors ship stopping energy to both of the entrance wheels individually, aiding within the child Lambo’s rotation. However in the identical breath, additionally they apply torque to the wheels, straightening the automotive’s yaw angle.

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Execs: Ridiculously Quick, Simple to Drive, Superb Tech

The central electrical motor boosts the high-revving V-8’s response, whereas additionally offering refined straightening power underneath braking by way of extra engine braking. It additionally pre-boosts the colossal IHI turbochargers by making use of a slight drag to the crankshaft earlier than deploying full energy. (Earlier than you ask, they don’t seem to be larger than the Corvette ZR1’s turbos, however are rattling shut.)

Then there’s that flat-plane V-8. It revs to an astounding 10,000 rpm (10,250 rpm if you happen to use launch management), and formally, it makes 789 horsepower. However a number of Lambo of us on the bottom dispute that quantity. Most will let you know that the engine produces north of 800 hp, nearer to 840 in actuality, and that it is powerful to say complete system output with a hybrid.

Nonetheless, the Lambo deploys as much as 907 hp from 9,000 to 9,750 rpm, with solely the slightest dropoff to redline. It’s a completely ground-up Lamborghini design, forged and cast in Sant’Agata, utilizing some trick stuff—titanium connecting rods, a DLC-coated finger-follower valvetrain, and the aforementioned BFTs.

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Cons: Numb Steering, Too Subdued Visually (For A Lambo)

Put merely: Hybridization is a defining attribute of the Temerario. Mohr proudly boasts that Lamborghini pushes the chances of electrical help additional than every other automaker, noting that the corporate writes its personal firmware for the entire digital controls.

With three lead-follow periods on the storied, System 1-grade Circuito do Estoril, it was simple to see these efforts come to life.

I drove each a standard Temerario and the Allegerita package deal, which lightens the automotive by 28 kilos (55 if you happen to spring for the optionally available carbon fiber wheels) and provides a number of refined aerodynamic enhancements for an total 67 % improve in downforce.

Photograph by: Lamborghini

Photograph by: Lamborghini

The largest distinction between the 2 Temerario packages was the selection of tire: Bridgestone Potenza Sport for a “regular” Temerario, and the grippier Potenza Race for the Allegerita. Allegerita, oddly, means “she is lighter.”

In both permutation, understanding the dense inside workings of the factor proved to be very simple—nothing was too sophisticated. The Temerario merely offered a site for me to play in, one with a large, forgiving trough of grip and loads of choices.

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If I requested for a bit extra rotation on nook entry with brakes, it might give it to me. If I rolled the steering over early and demanded it to rotate on energy, it might slingshot me out of a nook with a slight scrub of oversteer. Irrespective of the state of affairs, the Temerario remained adaptable in yaw angle, virtually lending to a sense that it did every part on a pivot round your coccyx. I mentioned this in regards to the Revuelto: It handles like a unfastened, tippy-toes rally automotive. And studying about Mohr’s affinity for ass-happy Japanese vehicles explains this trait.

Its solely sin is the steering: Numb, with a disappointingly flat effort curve. In an age the place virtually each sporting automaker has solved electrical energy steering, the Temerario’s wheel is resolutely disconnected. Solely a pale whisper of the tires journey up in countersteer, even then, it’s largely an train in listening to the seat reasonably than your arms.

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The engine feels virtually as highly effective because the Revuelto’s 1,001-horse, naturally aspirated V-12, and revs with much more vigor on the high finish. The moment torque and linearity had been arduous to consider, because of the electrical motors delicately mixing with the V-8 to attain true naturally aspirated responsiveness.

The Temerario’s neatest trick? Making all 10,000 rpm helpful and worthwhile, with an absurd surge of energy all the best way to redline. It virtually wiped the V-10 clear from my neurons. Virtually.

Too simple is an idiotic factor to say a couple of supercar. When can a sports activities automotive be too simple? But, I’ve all the time considered Lambos as the harmful ones. Not really harmful, however the most effective at simulating the sensation of hazard.

Photograph by: Chris Rosales / Motor1

Photograph by: Chris Rosales / Motor1

The Temerario is objectively higher in each single approach than the Huracán–proper to the purpose of being too simple. You get out of the factor, take a look at its barely subdued (for a Lambo) seems to be, hear its a lot too quiet idle, and assume—does it have the emotional fringe of the Huracán?

Proper now, the Temerario doesn’t have the demise’s razor blade character of that outdated V-10 beast. It is a temperament Lambo nonetheless is aware of—the proof is within the Revuelto. However there is no such thing as a doubt that the Temerario is a significantly better Lambo for somebody who needs to make use of it day by day.

However is it a greater Lamborghini? I am not fairly positive.

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