Luxury sports cars have always stood for 2 things – High Performance & High Style.
Which brand to better personify this, other than the Lamborghini?
The Italian car maker has always produced vehicles which have been admired over the years for their superior technology & looks and the Lamborghini Revuelto lives up to this heritage.
Cut to 2023, just before it’s 60th anniversary the brand unveiled Lamborghini Revuelto (named after a fighting bull).
It distinguishes from other hybrids by calling it the first HPEV (short for “high-performance electrified vehicle), hybrid super sports car.
The Lamborghini Revuelto is an in-between step for a brand that, like the vast majority of the automotive industry, is being forced to accept electrification, whether it’s excited about it or not.
The Lamborghini Revuelto loses none of the theatre that we’ve come to expect from the Italian brand – it’s fun, entertaining and stunning.
It has established a new benchmark in performance, on-board technology, and driving pleasure.
The power of hybridization is harnessed to take performance and driving emotions to an unprecedented level.
If you’re looking to get behind the wheel of a true supercar that embodies confidence, power, and groundbreaking aerodynamics, the 2024 Lamborghini Revuelto is the fit for you.
Lamborghini Revuelto is supposed to give an amazingly natural feeling driving experience.
The electrification isn’t just there to add performance, it has also allowed the Reveulto’s engineering team to create a car that feels much nimbler and more agile than its predecessor most of the time, despite weighing in excess of 200kg more.
Where the outgoing Aventador felt raw and unpredictable, the Revuelto feels much more trustworthy.
The Lamborghini Revuelto offers breathtaking performance. It takes a new 6.5-litre, 12-cylinder – V12 petrol engine, producing 814bhp, and combines it with three electric motors – two on the front axle (each producing 110 kW) and one integrated into the gearbox, which are capable of adding up to 187hp of assistance.
The fact that electric power is being delivered to both axles means there is no lack of traction as the electrons begin to flow.
The e-motors are not trying to replace or steal the limelight from the combustion engine—but rather do the perfect supporting act.
Lamborghini Revuelto’s total output is a whopping 1,001bhp and has a torque of 725Nm, a figure which is almost as impressive as installing the complex powertrain in the Revuelto’s chassis.
The new V12 in the Revuelto is still naturally aspirated and mounted longitudinally, but it has been rotated 180 degrees to allow for a 3.8kWh battery – which sits within the transmission tunnel running through the centre of the cockpit.
Unless you’re driving the Lamborghini Revuelto in pure EV mode, you’re never aware it has electric motors, never aware of their complex interactions with the internal combustion engine or the chassis, regardless of whether you’re accelerating, braking, or cornering.
All you know is this is a V-12 Lamborghini that does all those things with remarkable speed and fluency. From the driver’s seat it feels effortlessly natural.
Behind the wheel, the Lamborghini Revuelto is not aggressive or brutish (despite its looks, which are typically macho), nor is it intimidating to drive.
It inspires confidence, flatters you, even and is outrageously entertaining.
The V12 is the starring feature, providing the bulk of the huge levels of thrust and sounding spectacular while it does so.
The rev limit has risen from 8,700rpm to 9,500rpm, so it has the soundtrack to match the performance.
At first, it sounds more restrained than the Aventador. But under load, with the exhaust flaps open, the Revuelto then sounds exactly how a Lamborghini ought to – first snotty, then screaming.
The electrification results in a 30 percent performance boost, while emissions are reduced by the same amount. At 218 kilograms, the Lamborghini Revuelto is 17 kilograms lighter than the outgoing Aventador.
If you’re already a confirmed EV convert, despite what you may think about Lamborghini—and more importantly, perhaps, the kind of people who drive Lamborghinis—the Revuelto is a car that signals the astonishing things a hypercar-manufacturer can do if it leans in to what electricity can offer diehard petrol heads.
The Lamborghini Revuelto’s top speed is 217 mph and the sheer power of the Revuelto is absurd, with a 0-124mph time of just seven seconds and an equally impressive 0-62mph time of 2.5 seconds.
It’s also incredible how much fine tuning there has been in improving the car’s drivability.
There’s tremendous composure at high speed in the Revuelto and that’s thanks to the torque vectoring.
Most sports cars use this for agility, but in the Revuelto it’s used to maximise stability.
Where the Aventador is an uncouth beast, the Revuelto is a beast with manners.
Looked at objectively, the new Lamborghini Revuelto is an enormous step forward in technological development.
But what about the emotions? Rest assured the Revuelto gets pulses racing for all the right reasons, and this starts with the opening of the scissor doors, followed by the start procedure, in which the start button peeks out from under a red cover.
The new eight-speed, twin-clutch e-gearbox is a huge step-up. The Aventador’s automated single clutch was always as savage as it was fast, the Lamborghini Revuelto’s twin-clutch feels both quicker and less snappy.
Lamborghini says the Revuelto’s hybridization presents numerous possibilities to “encourage” the driver.
This could be why there are a bewildering 13 separate drive modes.
The EV-only Città is for city driving, Strada for cruising, and Sport is for when you fancy exploring the Revuelto’s dynamism.
The Sport mode brings drama to the powertrain’s sound and fury, and increases the combined power output slightly to 895hp.
This is the mode the company reckons that most owners will drive most often.
Corsa is for track use and unleashes the full 1,001 bhp, but this also tries to maximise traction over drama for ultimate track performance: more go, less show.
There’s an additional controller on the top right for managing the hybrid system with Recharge, Hybrid and Performance modes.
The control systems in the Lamborghini Revuelto are so clever that driving conditions are anticipated by the car.
If the rear loses traction in a fast corner, it can send power to the inside wheel of the front axle to bring it under control.
Most impressive of all, you don’t even notice this happen from inside: it all feels very natural.
The Lamborghini Revuelto has got a new suspension system, and next-generation carbon ceramic brakes come into play.
The central tunnel of the Lamborghini Revuelto houses a 3.8-kWh lithium-ion battery pack, which is so small that the car can be fully charged in just 30 minutes on a 7kW power supply, or via regen from all three motors and the engine in just six minutes.
This also means it manages a pitiful eight miles on battery power alone.
In truth, the Revuelto is not intended for EV-only operation. It’s all about how the e-motors and the Internal combustion engine work in harmony.
The Lamborghini Revuelto’s interior is also a win, the best yet from the brand.
Like the exterior, the interior is also influenced by the ‘Y’ design theme.
The steering wheel layout is logical and ergonomic.
The fit and finish have been thankfully taken up a notch or three, with plusher materials and more tech.
The Lamborghini Revuelto offers a completely new Human Machine Interface (HMI) system consisting of three displays: a 12.3’ digital cockpit, an 8.4’ central display, and in addition 9.1’ passenger-side display.
The system has a fresh look and feel, with 3D graphics, animations, widgets, and styling.
The three displays are managed by one technological ‘brain’ within a unified design, ensuring both a consistent user interface in terms of colors and graphics, as well as coherent interaction across all displays.
The three-screen dash allows you to swipe certain data over from the central display to the slender passenger one.
The underlying software is also believed to be more responsive. The Revuelto will also be the first Lamborghini to have a sophisticated driver-assist system driven by cameras, radar, and other sensors.
Seats of the Lamborghini Revuelto are comfortable enough for, whisper it, daily use. Overall, it’s very tidy.
The biggest and most obvious difference is space, with much more headroom and shoulder room; one can wear a helmet without it touching the roof over bumps for the first time in a Lambo sports car.
There’s an inch more headroom than in the Aventador and 3.3 inches more legroom, and Lamborghini says you can fit a golf-bag behind the seats.
There’s much more oddments storage as well, phone holders and even a pair of pop-out cupholders which appear to be identical to Porsche ones.
You know the Revuelto is a Lamborghini through and through with its signature angry ‘shark’ nose, wide haunches and scissor doors that dramatically swing open skywards.
The Revuelto features a sharp and edgy design.
The design is smoother, more organic and a suitably modern take on the Aventador that will keep turning heads throughout its life cycle that should last well into the next decade.
With sculpted lines, an all-new carbon fiber subframe, and a rear display of its iconic V12 engine, the Lamborghini Revuelto represents the seamless fusion of tradition and innovation.
Its driver-focused cockpit, exclusive design elements, and suite of connected technologies create a futuristic environment that brings driving engagement to an unprecedented level.
Most of the design work has also focused on aero efficiency, with the Revuelto’s front aerodynamic load increasing by 33 percent and the rear load increasing by 74 percent when compared to the Aventador Ultimae.
The supercar also features multiple cuts and creases at the sides.
Like with other modern Lamborghinis, you just can’t miss the signature ‘Y’ design theme, which is now even more prominent on the Revuelto.
The side ducts have the Y motif in a contrasting colour and the tail-lights have a cluster of Y elements that look like arrows.
However, it’s the extra large Y-shaped Daytime Running Lamps that are particularly stunning and impossible to miss.
At night, they are an easy way to identify the Revuelto, even if it pops into your rear view mirror for a fleeting moment.
What is also very Lamborghini is the way the side glass area tips forward and the alloy wheels (also with Y-shaped elements) tightly fill the wheel arches, giving a beautiful balance to the design.
The Lamborghini Revuelto comes with a new chassis, dubbed as “monofuselage”.
It comes with the traditional sharp design that we have come to expect from Lamborghini, including design touches from the Sian.
The company has also invested in reducing the weight. The monofuselage is 10 percent lighter than Aventador’s chassis and its front frame weighs 20 percent less.
Lamborghini’s Chief Technology Officer, is predictably bubbling with enthusiasm when introducing the new car.
But he and his team have defined it with a simple philosophy: “we asked, what can electrification add? Not just in terms of performance and the ability to have this zero emissions mode, but more importantly excitement.”
The Lamborghini Revuelto is already sold out for the next two years, proving how excited potential owners are.