There’s rear-wheel steering, too, with up to three degrees of movement in each direction.
There’s no physical link between the engine and the front wheels but the only time the Revuelto becomes two-wheel drive is in all-electric Cittá (city) mode, when the front e-axle moves the car largely on its own, the rear motor chiming in on demand.
The Revuelto is considered a truly four-wheel-drive car, even in reverse. Each oil-cooled front motor weighs 18.5kg and generates 258lb ft of torque. ‘It’s real torque vectoring, not by brakes,’ says Mohr, the system only dragging a brake to aid turning or stability when it absolutely has to. The torque vectoring potential of the front e-axle could be the Revuelto’s secret weapon. Combine this new peak with the Revuelto’s trio of electric motors and total output comes to 1001bhp. As a benchmark, the final, most powerful Aventador iteration, the Ultimae, punched out 769bhp at 8500rpm (and 531lb ft of torque to the Revuelto’s 535lb ft, both at 6750rpm). He adds: ‘It was important to us that we didn’t want a “downsizing” hybrid approach.’ Hence it’s still a 6.5-litre engine, and the lightest and most powerful Lamborghini production V12 yet, weighing 218kg (17kg less than the Aventador’s) and generating 814bhp at 9250rpm. Rouven Mohr says the team has ‘improved the sound character’ over the Aventador, not exactly a dull-sounding car. Said engine is still naturally aspirated, revving all the way to a no-doubt heavenly sounding 9500rpm. At that time I was also thinking, “When all cars are becoming electric, is the exhaust some kind of dinosaur theme?” But in the end we decided to celebrate the engine and those exposed exhaust pipes.’ Engine and drivetrain The idea of the hexagon exhaust pipe – when I saw that in one of the models I said, “This is the one.” The boldest visualisation of the engine and the exhaust. ‘We filled up this room with third-scale models. The new car is the product of ‘the biggest design ideation we’ve ever done,’ Borkert continues. ‘All of the shapes at the rear of the car celebrate the engine.’ ‘We don’t know if we can have the V12 engine again, so we decided to celebrate this piece of art,’ smiles senior designer Manuele Amprimo. To the extent that it’s entirely exposed in the centre of the Revuelto’s coverless rear deck. In the meantime, the new model celebrates the V12 with gusto. The Revuelto is planned to continue into the early ’30s, before which the first all- electric Lambos are expected to have been revealed. Next year Lamborghini will begin to hybridise its entire product range, with a target of a 50 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2025 and more than 80 per cent by the end of the decade. Pricing is yet to be confirmed, but the Revuelto is expected to cost from £450k.
Following its dynamic debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the start of full-scale production, Lamborghini has announced that the model has already sold out for two years, with buyers now set to wait until at least 2025 for fulfilment of a new order. Launched as Lamborghini’s first plug-in hybrid, and its first series-production hybrid at that, the Revuelto marks the beginning of a new era for Sant’Agata.
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