The Huracán’s successor is a true Lamborghini despite some electric help.
After a decade, Lamborghini is finally ready to say goodbye to the Huracán. The Italian marque unveiled the new Temerario at this year’s edition of Monterey Car Week. Unlike the long-running supercar it’s replacing, the latest Raging Bull has a hybrid V-8 and front-wheel drive.
Yes, the Temerario is a departure of sorts for the automaker, but it is also very clearly a Lambo through and through. It shares its name—which means fierce and courageous—with a famous fighting bull from 1875. It also features the same wedge shape that’s been one of the company’s trademarks since the Countach.
Hints of the Huracàn and the Revuelto may be present in its design, but the newer model is sleeker than its older siblings. It has razor-thin lights up front along with hexagon-shaped running lights, large air ducts on the side panels and just behind the windows, and a rocket ship-like rear end dominated (again) by hexagons and a giant diffuser. Rounding things out is a staggered set of wheels, 20 inches up front, 21 inches in the back. It looks aggressive and dynamic, as all Raging Bulls should, and like it will have little problem cutting through the air. The lightweight Alleggerita package, which includes several carbon-fibre elements, including a larger rear wing, also increases downforce by 158 percent.
The Temerario, like the Revuelto and updated Urus, is a hybrid, or in Lamborghini’s parlance, a high-powered electrified vehicle (HPEV). Its powertrain includes a totally new twin-turbocharged 4.4-litre V-8 and a trio of electric motors. The mid-mounted mill may have fewer cylinders than the V-10 found in the Huracán, but it still produces 588 kW and 730 Nm of torque by itself. Add in the extra power from the oil-cooled, axial flux electric motors, and you have a total output 676 kW. With all that power at their disposal, drivers will be able to launch from zero to 100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and hit a top speed of 343 km/h, which makes it a massive 1.6 km/h faster than the Huracán.
The Temerario’s hybrid set-up gets its juice from a battery pack with a 3.8-kWh capacity, just like the one that powered the Revuelto’s system. Although the range is not provided, Lamborghini notes that the supercar can be driven in full electric mode.
We’re still waiting to find out when the Temerario will go on sale and how much it will cost. The expectation, right now, is that deliveries will begin later this year or in early 2025. The outgoing Huracán starts at around €270,000, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if the new model costs the same, though some outlets have suggested pricing could reach around €360,000.
