Lamborghini’s chief technical officer Rouven Mohr has described its new V12 plug-in hybrid Revuelto flagship as providing the most visceral, dynamic driving expertise ever from the model.
“One of the growth targets for Revuelto was to have a really genuine, pure and linear driving behaviour, even should you exploit the limits of the car,” mentioned Mr Mohr.
“All the expertise that’s behind the scenes; the torque vectoring, the torque distribution from entrance to rear, rear-wheel steer – all the things, shouldn’t be recognised by the driver – in any other case it’s not nicely carried out.
“The driver has to really feel what the car is doing – whether or not the car is impartial, or the car is oversteering or understeering, it needs to be constant. We additionally need the driver to have the ability to play with the car in Sport mode, even right down to drifting.
“For us at Lamborghini, it’s completely necessary to have the management technique that enables the driver to have this predictability in the car. We even have very excessive mechanical grip on the Revuelto with large tyres – as much as 355s at the rear, so you’ve to have the ability to sense the reactions of the car in any state of affairs.
Mr Mohr firmly believes there has by no means been something like the Revuelto to the diploma which has been achieved, not less than from a dynamic standpoint with a car on this class.
“I can guarantee you, you’ve by no means pushed a car on this mid-engine class with this a lot energy and this degree of mechanical grip, or that is so assured. Even after only a few laps you are feeling assured sufficient to start out enjoying with the car,” he mentioned.
Mr Mohr agrees that with the Aventador, which the Revuelto replaces, you actually needed to be an knowledgeable with the car, however with the degree of expertise growth over the final decade or so with software program, it has modified the parameters dramatically.
“The issues you are able to do with the dynamic management programs is so spectacular, it simply places it in one other dimension altogether. It borders on magic, even,” he mentioned.
“It’s not perfection as a result of that may be boring, so we had to verify the car nonetheless had numerous character – not simply with sound but in addition from the car’s reactions.
“The greatest problem was to dial in a pure feeling into the car – particularly when you think about the total complexity of the drivetrain; three motors, a double-clutch gearbox mounted transversely, torque vectoring on the entrance as nicely, rear-wheel steering and energetic dampers – you need to set all this up in such a method that the driver doesn’t recognise any of the magic when all of it comes collectively.
“There are a variety of parameters in which you’ll intervene and this seamlessness needs to be there it doesn’t matter what the degree of cost in the battery. It’s a really advanced problem.”
Mr Mohr informed CarExpert the sound of the engine was an attention-grabbing space of growth and one thing they needed to get proper given the Aventador’s trademark scream.
“For certain everybody was already in love with the previous V12 sound, however we discovered should you go construct to larger revs the crescendo of the engine might be improved with a sharper sound, so now it’ll rev out to 9500rpm,” he mentioned.
“We additionally employed a variety of counter-measures on this car. First of all we solely selected a battery as giant as we required from a efficiency perspective, as a result of with Revuelto we’re not after vary.
“We needed weight-saving measures; the engine is lighter and we now have the lightest gearbox mounted transversely for this example – and we keep away from buffer. On prime of that we now have rear-wheel steering and rear torque vectoring, in addition to a pure EV vary of between 10 and 15km”, concluded Mr Mohr.
The Revuelto is nonetheless being fine-tuned in preparation for its world dynamic launch later in the 12 months.
Dubbed the first tremendous sports activities V12 Hybrid HPEV (High Performance Electrified Vehicle), the Revuelto is a technological tour de power boasting a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine, paired with an eight-speed transverse gearbox and three electrical motors.
Total system output is 1015 CV (747kW).
Going from standstill to 100km/h takes simply 2.5 seconds, whereas 200km/h comes up in lower than seven seconds. Top velocity is claimed at greater than 350km/h.
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