Body material
The Revuelto is a hair larger than the already sprawling Aventador it replaces, and once again built around a carbon fiber monocoque. Its chassis is 10% lighter and 25% stiffer, and upgrades its front subframe from aluminum to carbon—the rear stays metal, but still gets lighter and stiffer. It's clad in a mostly carbon body with highly optimized aero, some of it active, for drastically reduced drag and increased downforce front and rear.
Brand new power system
The defining feature of the Revuelto is its powertrain, headed by an all-new 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 with a racing-style dry sump. It's the lightest, most powerful V12 Lamborghini has ever made, with higher compression than the Aventador and a rev limiter way up at 9,500 rpm. Peak power comes on at 9,250 rpm, at 813 horsepower with up to 535 lb-ft of torque—but that's before you account for the electricity.
The Lamborghini Revuelto is a plug-in hybrid and, while it still has a V12 gasoline engine, it also has three electric motors. Together – the car’s Spanish name translates as “scrambled” – the two systems can produce a total of 1,001 horsepower, according to the automaker.
Diversified driving experience
The car, whose price is as yet undisclosed, will offer driving sensations ranging from loud and viciously punchy to smooth and silent. There’s a menu of 13 different drive modes altogether. Front-wheel-drive low-speed cruising will be fully electric, while high-powered aggressive track driving will employ all available power from the V12 engine and the electric motors.
This juice box powers a motor on each front wheel, enabling electric torque vectoring all-wheel drive. The Revuelto can be run in EV-only mode with 177 hp and front-wheel drive, or wake up its V12 to combine them for hypercar-level performance. We're talking a total system output of 1,001 hp and 1,051 lb-ft of torque, good for zero to 62 mph in 2.5 seconds and a top speed beyond 217 mph.
Price forecast
Lamborghini has not yet announced the price of the Revuelto but all these new plug-in hybrid models will cost significantly more than the models they replace, said CEO Stephan Winkelmann. Prices for the Lamborghini Aventador, the brand's last V12 model, started at around half a million dollars.
