The last Lamborghini premieres were not for the squeamish, rugged cars like the Aventador, Veneno or Egoista are a stress test for any aesthetic sense. Only the little Gallardo practiced so far in restraint - but so it is over to the successor.
The Lamborghini brand like to fell really hard in the past years. The presentations of new vehicles in which company boss Stephan Winkelmann, an ex-paratrooper, like occurred in extremely tight cut suits, had a high Fremdschämfaktor.
It was mainly due to the vehicles that were shown there, the approximately three million euro Veneno for example, or the Egoista . Rugged brutal race cars, some of which were presented on aircraft carriers and with which people would probably never trust without marked neurosis out of the garage. With the elegant designs of the first Lamborghini's, she at least had nothing in common.
More limited the brand in recent years was only really with the sports car Gallardo, which became a best-selling model. Now his successor takes. Although the is almost understated compared to its bigger brothers - but next to his actually relatively simple predecessors, he also acts as fallen into the testosterone pot.
Outfitted like a fighter jet
Huracan LP 610-4 called the car by its full name, which can be decoded as follows: Huracan was a legendary fighting bull, who fought in 1879 in Alicante and was known as "the Invincible", LP is the abbreviation for the longitudinally mounted engine, with 610 is the performance named in PS and the 4 stands for four-wheel drive.
However, especially wannabe fighter pilots feel in this Lambo at home. The instruments are fully animated, plus there is a battery of toggle switches and a start button in the style of a bomb release lever in a fighter aircraft.
Under the wide and towering stern of the more developed V10 engine with 5.2 liter displacement and 610 hp of power now lies. The maximum torque is 560 Nm at Lamborghini, all-wheel drive is mandatory and plus there is a new dual-clutch transmission. And these are data of the 1422 kg heavy Renner: From 0 to 100 in 3.2 seconds, from 0 to 200 in 9.9 seconds, top speed 325 km / h
As before, Lamborghini is focusing its "small" model to a naturally aspirated engine.The reaches its maximum power only when acoustically sure infernal 8250 revolutions per minute. To use the fuel at least a little house hold, there is a direct fuel injection and a start-stop system. The standard consumption is now at 12.5 liters per 100 kilometers, which are after all two liters less than before. For friends of the lame comparison: The Huracan needs so little more than twice as much as a VW Golf GTI - developed three times as much power.
Speaking of VW. That Lamborghini is almost doomed to overplay the issue of sports car continually, is in my mind that the VW empire, is one of the Lamborghini as Audi appendage since 1998, the roles are clearly defined: Porsche builds the innovative German tradition sports car , the luxurious Bentley-turgid types, the wacky About Bugatti cars and Audi R8 served with the emerging full-throttle friends. That leaves the radical rabid compartment, the Lamborghini occupied so convincing.
The official premiere of the Huracan is the beginning of March at the International Motor Show in Geneva, on the road the first models will probably earlier in the summer - for the price of an estimated 180,000 euros. Who belongs to the Lamborghini regular clientele, by the way - with some luck even in time for Christmas - have an invitation in the mail.For selected friends of the house leads Lamborghini the new car in the next few weeks at 130 Preview private parties in 60 countries before.There are probably a few extreme locations to be there.