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22 Ağustos 2014 Cuma

2015 Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4 Tested

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No quantity of warning could prepare us for how rapid this new Lamborghini is.

You may know the Nardò Ring as the 7.8-mile asphalt track exactly where the world’s automakers take their best-speed vacations. A traffic-free circular autobahn in the heel of Italy’s boot, the Porsche-owned test track is banked such that you can take your hands off any car’s steering wheel at 149 mph in the outer lane. It’s a single of the few areas on the planet exactly where Lamborghini’s new 10-cylinder wedge, the Huracán, could prove to us how aerodynamically sound it is approaching its claimed leading speed of 202 mph.

We say “could” because the ring is off-limits today. As an alternative, we’re rifling via Nardò’s other treasure, a 3.9-mile squiggle of asphalt known only as the handling track. Wide enough to field a NASCAR race and technical adequate for a Grand Prix, it merits a more pretentious name, so we’ll give it a single.

Circuito Internationale Nardò, as we’ll call it, is 16 corners of sweepers, hairpins, and flyers that make it a excellent spot to inspect Lamborghini’s new runt and its 602-hp, anything-but-runty V-10. Halfway around the track, you crest a tiny rise that reveals a heart-stopping panorama stretching to the horizon. The land falls all the way to the Ionian Sea, producing the illusion that a incorrect move could send the Huracán sliding almost 2 miles into the drink.

A vehicle with this significantly drama and this a lot speed does not let your pulse rest for lengthy. The Huracán corners flat, grips doggedly, and blitzes out of bends. But it keeps your heart rate from fully redlining by being just as precise and predictable as it is explosive. There’s more understeer in this 4-wheel-drive Huracán than elsewhere in the mid-engine stratum, but it is hardly the frightening push of some previous Lambos. Trail the brakes or lift in a corner and the aluminum-and-carbon-fiber space frame willingly modifications direction. The brakes bite progressively, with some of the best modulation we’ve seasoned from carbon-ceramic discs. Pirelli P Zero rubber sinks claws into the pavement to create cornering grip of 1.01 g’s and a 70-to–mph stopping distance of just 144 feet. The 6-speed dual-clutch automatic, Lamborghini’s first such transmission, executes ruthless, premeditated gearchanges. You don’t miss turbochargers when you have 10 cylinders inflating a torque curve to such a wholesome level, either.

According to our tests, the infant Lambo is faster than not just the Ferrari 458 Italia but also its huge brother, Lambo’;s Aventador.

Lamborghinis when had a reputation for being fast in a straight line and clunky in corners. This automobile is fast everywhere, though our test gear confirmed that this Huracán is freakishly swift in a straight line. We ripped to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds and burst via the quarter-mile in 8.4 seconds at 135 mph. Forget the comparable Ferraris and McLarens—they’re consuming the Huracán’s dust. In fact, the little Lambo even knocks off the Porsche 911 Turbo S, a computerized acceleration kill-bot and another vibrant satellite in the VW universe. This factor is Veyron swift.

But the true drama lies closer to house as the Huracán, base price tag of $ 241,945, beats the $ 404,195 Lamborghini Aventador in the essential acceleration measures by a half-second. You still have to get the costly a single, however, if you want doors that open up rather than out. Appears worth it, no?

Our Huracán demands a break soon after 55 miles of Nardò’s handling track. The water-temperature needle nips at the red, and the digital instrument cluster begs us to have mercy on the transmission. When a cool-down lap yields no relief, we pit. The 5.2-liter decachord behind the seats snorts steam by way of its air intakes and the slatted engine cover, enveloping the rear half of the car in a sweet-smelling ethylene-glycol fog.

The well-liked story line holds that the newest bulls mark a monumental shift for Lamborghini and its partnership with Audi that the Germans have gone down to exactly where the wild issues are and tamed a single and made it their personal. The blown coolant hose is only the very first indication that this Lamborghini is still really significantly Italian.

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20 Ağustos 2014 Çarşamba

Tail-Wagging Good News: Lamborghini Taking into consideration Rear-Wheel-Drive Huracán, Other Variants

The reveal of the initial spinoff of Lamborghini’s sensational new Huracán supercar—the radical, rear-wheel-drive Super Trofeo race car—last weekend in Pebble Beach begs the question: Will Lambo create a tail-wagging, rear-wheel-drive Huracán for the street? Effectively, at that identical occasion, Autocar gleaned a hint of an answer from Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann: “We did it with the Gallardo, so it may be an choice,” he said. “We are a 4-wheel-drive super-sports car [manufacturer], but why need to we not do a rear-drive selection?”

The rear-drive Gallardo of which Winkelmann spoke is, of course, the restricted-edition 2010 Gallardo LP550-2 Balboni, which was powered by a 542-hp V-10, which had 10 fewer horsepower than the Gallardo LP560-4 but also lugged about 97 fewer pounds. It was a touch slower to accelerate (turns out 4-wheel grip is a great factor when there’s this a lot energy) but had a character that we described as “more beastly” than the automobile on which it was primarily based. A far more mannerly rear-drive Gallardo LP550-2 Spyder debuted for the Gallardo’s swan-song year, 2013, and was also constructed in very low volumes.

Apparently, it is less a matter of Lamborghini wanting variations on the Huracán theme than needing them. “We want lots of derivatives,” Winkelmann told Autocar. “Customers expect it, and we often need something new to talk about.” Yeah, because folks do not speak about Lamborghinis adequate.

What other derivatives are on the way? Nicely, if the Gallardo’s item cadence provides us anything to go on, a Huracán Spyder ought to seem within a year, and a lightweight Superleggera coupe and a smattering of particular editions will appear during the cycle, as well. Exactly where the rear-drive Huracán fits into the schedule is anyone’s guess, but we’re content to hear that execs are taking into consideration it.

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16 Ağustos 2014 Cumartesi

One-seat Wonder: Lamborghini Shows 2015 Huracán LP620-two Super Trofeo Race Car at Quail Lodge

The Lamborghini Huracán is taking the exotic-car world by storm—pun totally intended—and now is poised to blaze a path into the automaker’s one-make Blancpain racing series in the form of the wild 2015 Huracán LP620-2 Super Trofeo. The raffishly styled race car makes its official debut at the 2014 Quail Motorsports Gathering in Carmel, California, just one week before the U.S. Blancpain series calendar kicks off at Virginia International Raceway.

As with Lamborghini’s Gallardo Super Trofeo models, this Huracán uses a mostly stock version of the donor car’s direct-injected V-10 engine, which in this case gets a 10-hp bump over the road car’s already substantial 602 horsepower. The standard car’s all-wheel-drive setup is ditched in favor of good ol’ fashioned rear-wheel drive. A hybrid carbon-fiber and aluminum chassis and a hollowed-out, one-seat interior helps bring the purpose-built Huracán racer’s weight down to a feathery 2800 pounds, according to Lamborghini. And of course, the Lambo has an almost freakish amount of aero addenda, including a 10-position rear wing, front and rear air diffusers, adjustable front air intakes, and canards all around.

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Now that we’ve seen the race car, here’s hoping that a roadgoing Super Trofeo “Stradale” version will make an appearance soon so we can see it unleash its torrential downpour of horsepower (and downforce) on the street.

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