The price stated above for this Lamborghini Huracan successor is of course before taxes and personalisation.
There’s a new baby bull in town, as Lamborghini Kuala Lumpur recently launched the new Temerario over here! This successor to the Huracan makes its way to Malaysia just shy of a year since it officially made its debut internationally, and could be yours from just RM 1.35 million (before options and duties of course).
Now to those not up to speed with their Lambo lingo, the headline news with the Temerario is to be what spins all four of its wheels. This latest baby bull unfortunately loses two cylinders over its predecessor, but in its place is a trio of electric motors that bumps its combined power output to a monstrous 920 PS!
A ground-up Lamborghini engine this particular 4.0-litre tacks on a pair of turbos in its hot-vee and a flat plane crank for maximum auditory enjoyment. And while some might still lament the loss of the V10’s shrill shriek, this V8 is nevertheless actually still capable of screaming its way up to the heady heights of 10,000 rpm (with the raging bull marque touting there is apparently room to turn the wick up even further still to a whopping 11,000 rpm).
Two of the three e-motors motors in the Temerario live up front to make up its torque-vectoring all-wheel drive system, while also simultaneously turning this baby bull into Lamborghini’s first front-wheel drive when in Citta mode. A third motor meanwhile mounted between the V8 and the new eight-speed dual-clutch transmission acts as a starter generator and fills in the torque curve with up to 300 Nm of shove, which in turn supposedly mitigates any lag from those high-pressure turbos (that provides up to 36 PS of boost!).
Providing the juice to those trio of electric motors is a lithium-ion pack with almost token 3.8 kWh capacity, for which it is rumoured to afford only 3.5 km of silent all-electric driving range before the V8 roars into life. In any case, topping the Temerario up takes only 30 minutes using a 7 kW external supply, or as little as 6 minutes directly from its engine and regenerative braking.
Under the skin of this new Temerario is an all aluminium space frame, replacing the part-carbon part-aluminium architecture of the Huracan. Lamborghini touts that this fully metallic tub is 20% stiffer than the part-composite unit that came before, though the bigger news is probably for it to be physically bigger, with its 34 mm of increased headroom said to now be enough to 195+ cm drivers to fit into this baby bull while wearing a helmet.
As expected with all this electrification tech on board however, the Temerario’s quoted 1,715 kg kerb weight is over a quarter tonne more than the outgoing Huracan. Lamborghini nevertheless still quotes that this PHEV supercar’s 2.7 second 0-100 km/h time is 0.2 seconds faster than its predecessor, with its new 343 km/h V-Max being 18 km/h more as well.
Exterior-wise, the Temerario has certainly stepped the design flamboyance up a notch over the outgoing Huracan. The headlights on this latest baby bull follows on from the reborn Countach and take up a small sliver of each corner of the hood, while a pair of hexagonal LED running lights sit just beneath them on each side of the front bumper.
The lower section of the Temerario’s rear is meanwhile cut away to expose a good chunk of its fat rear tyres, as well as make its overhang appear shorter. A massive hexagonal exhaust (alá Revuelto) and similarly shaped taillights further adds to the drama round its rump, but some might also notice a rather pig-snout look after having stared at it for long enough.
Moving along within now, the Temerario’s cockpit-style cabin was apparently designed with the intention of make the driver feel like a fighter pilot on the road. This sentiment is reinforced by its starter button on the console still hidden under a red flip up cover, in addition to its aircraft-style crimson drive mode rotary knob on the top left of its flat bottomed steering wheel that enables drivers to toggle between Citta, Strada, Sport Corsa, and Corsa Plus.
An 8.4-inch portrait touchscreen features prominently at the centre of the Temerario’s dashboard below those rather angry-looking central air vents, while the driver has access to a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and the passenger gets to play with a slightly smaller 9.1-inch touchscreen display. The standard-fit ‘comfort’ seats offers 18-ways of electric adjustment, and are to be both heated and ventilated.
Whereas the Revuelto is more serious and focused on outright pace, Lamborghini chief technical officer Rouven Mohr touts “the Temerario plays the role of the rebel that is challenging you – ‘let’s have fun, let’s have fun!’”. To that end therefore, this new baby bull has apparently been purposely designed to allow some vibrations to pass through to the car body and seats from the engine, in order to intensify the sensory experience while driving.
Moreover, the Temerario is the first Lamborghini to offer a drift mode that uses torque vectoring on the front motors to provide three levels of slip angle. Should one fancy playing at automotive YouTuber too in their new raging bull, the triple-camera Lamborghini Vision Unit factory option has made it that little bit easier by being offering the ability to record footage of the road, the occupants and an over-the-shoulder view from the rear firewall.
