With 1,065 CV, a 345 km/h-plus top speed and a record Hockenheim lap, the latest Super Veloce takes Lamborghini’s V12 flagship to a new extreme.
Two letters on the engine cover, and 55 years of history behind them. Lamborghini revealed the Revuelto SV in Monterey on 14 August, the latest Super Veloce in a line running back to the Miura SV of 1971 and taking in the Diablo, the Murciélago and the Aventador along the way.
It is also the most powerful and fastest production car ever built in Sant’Agata Bolognese. System output stands at 1,065 CV — 783 kW — with 1,425 Nm of torque, a figure Lamborghini claims as best in class. The sprint to 100 km/h takes 2.4 seconds, 200 km/h arrives in 6.7, and the top speed exceeds 345 km/h. Just 1,963 examples will be built, the number chosen to mark the year the company was born, and they are reserved for the marque’s most loyal customers and collectors.
Doing the work is a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12, good for 825 CV at 9,250 rpm and willing to run on to 9,500. Three electric motors assist it: two axial-flux units on the front axle and a radial-flux motor sitting above the eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox, fed by a 7.3 kWh lithium-ion battery with a 190 kW peak. The total is 50 CV up on the standard Revuelto, for a power-to-weight ratio of 1.66 kg/CV, and Lamborghini says the new battery holds its performance up to four times more consistently under sustained track use.
The evidence sits at Hockenheim, where factory driver Marco Mapelli lapped in 1:41.6 — the quickest time ever recorded there by a production car. Aerodynamic revisions account for much of it: total downforce climbs 80 per cent over the Revuelto and 10 per cent over the Aventador SVJ, with downforce-to-drag efficiency up 60 per cent. Manually adjustable dampers derived from GT3 racing bring a claimed 17 per cent more agility and 10 per cent more lateral grip, while the new CCM-R Plus carbon-ceramic discs haul the car from 200 km/h to a standstill in 110 metres.
A new Pilota mode joins Strada, Sport and Corsa, selected by its own red rotary control on the steering wheel and built around a five-stage traction control system taken from Lamborghini’s GT3 programme. Bridgestone, meanwhile, has developed a bespoke Potenza Race R semi-slick for the car — a track tyre, though still road legal.
Visually, the SV widens the Revuelto’s stance with a vertical Omega treatment at the front, a fixed rear wing and multiple exterior components available in exposed carbon fibre. As with every Lamborghini, the result is striking: the length of the car, closing with that massive yet sleek spoiler and the twin pipes behind the engine bay, is an orchestra of elegant brutality of the kind we have come to expect from Sant’Agata. Four SV logo treatments and four liveries are offered, while the 20-inch front and 21-inch rear Dromos wheels wear hexagonal spokes and a redesigned centre-lock, the Monolocker, making its production debut here. Lamborghini has not confirmed a figure, but the Revuelto SV is expected to land at around €700,000.
