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In essence, the function of a car is to ease commuting between two points. Then there are the supercars that make you stare into the impossible and what a car can be. Since the beginning of motor car commuting, supercars have been the present as an entity that you don’t use for everyday driving but as an exquisite that makes you feel special.
In more recent times, the definition of supercars have changed to a lot extent, but it is still an exotic, street-legal sports car, with licence to roar around race circuits in terms of power, speed and handling. One that has stood out this year has been the Lamborghini Temerario, named after an 1875 fighting bull, with the Lamborghini CEO remarking that the name itself means “fierce and courageous”.
Coming as a successor to the Huracan, it marks a return of the V8 mid-engine from Lamborghini for the first time since the Lamborghini Jalpa. In fact, it is the second Lamborghini that comes with a twin-turbocharged V8 engine after the Urus, coming with a hot C setup which is mated with their new hybrid electric motor that together make 907 bhp and 730 Nm of blissful torque. The Temerario is classified as a plug-in hybrid sports car from the Italian automaker.
The flat-plane crank V8 will rev past 10,000 rpm, the fast Lamborghini to safely go past this screaming number. To make it rev this high, the Italian car manufacturer have given it titanium connecting rods, a short stroke and a flat plane crankshaft.
A 3.8 kWh battery, borrowed from the Lamborghini Revuelto, powers the front axle, making it an electric AWD system and is paired with a transverse eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. The electric motor fitted between the gearbox and engine makes 300 Nm of torque and 148 bhp at 3,500 rpm. The 4.0-litre engine, though, isn’t from the Volkswagen-Audi V8. Lamborghini have said that the Temerario will do 343 kph and go from 0-100 kph in just 2.7 seconds.
Designed by German automobile designer Mitja Borkert, it is everything that Lamborghini stands for, with its outrageous and sporty looks. The headlamp modules are slim, and the lower bumper gets hexagonal DRLs. Further back, it gets aggressive hexagonal taillamps and a centrally mounted exhaust. The wheels on the front measure 20 inches while the ones on the back are 21 inches. All of this enhances its supercar appeal.
It is on the inside that things get serious with Temerario coming with a 12.3-inch digital driver’s display and an 8.4-inch vertically mounted infotainment screen. The passenger also gets a 9.1-inch display.
Features include a 360-degree camera along with a Sonus Faber sound system. It also gets the Telemetry 2.0 system for data while on track as well. It has 13 driving modes and even has a new Drift mode, with three settings to choose from, so that all of the fun is under control.
Giving it ample space on the inside, it feels less like a full-blooded Supercar and more towards a luxury limousine despite only being a two-door coupe. The idea is that you can drive it from your home to a race circuit, go around the race track in blistering speed and then come back home like you were doing a school run. So four our first Sunday Supercar, the Lamborghini Temerario stands as an ideal candidate that can blend in both the streets of Monaco and the Fiorano Circuit.
