Still, as kerb weights go, those figures remain faintly palatable. But the Temerario? It set a new class record of 1905kg, even with its £37k diet pack. We will explain how astonishingly well the ‘junior’ Lambo hides its mass in the road test proper, but in isolation this figure has set alarms ringing, just as the advent of the 2.4-tonne BMW M5 did.
The Revuelto weighed even more, at 1960kg, but it has a 6.5-litre V12 and is so alien that its corpulence doesn’t initially register. The Temerario is something that could plausibly be cross-shopped with a 911 GT3, yet with a passenger, the thing weighs fully two tonnes.
In its defence, the Temerario carries all the hardware you can throw at a supercar in 2025: battery pack down the central spine; electric motor between turbocharged V8 and dual-clutch gearbox; another two motors on the front axle. In the old Huracán, a little Haldex clutch pack and some spindly half-shafts sufficed for the delivery of 4WD.
It can’t be easy to keep the chub at bay if you’ve essentially been forced down the road of hybridisation and the 4WD is part of your brand identity. We should make allowances for that.
More cynically, you could say that because Lamborghini knows its customers care about looks, noise and raw performance, it hasn’t tried very hard to keep the kilos at bay. Why would you, when 907bhp will still give you an outrageous 476bhp per tonne?
