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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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