It is downsizing at Lamborghini, where the 5.2-liter V10 engine is replaced by a 4-liter V8 engine, which the factory says is brand new.
Lamborghini has only just presented the new Temerario, which replaces the V10-engined Huracan, because the brand feels the need to defend the car.
In any case, Lamborghini's marketing manager Federico Foschini now says that the new 8-cylinders are better than the old 10.
That's what Motor1 writes.
In an interview with the media, Federico Foschini says that it is not about going from 10 to 8 cylinders, but about revolutions.
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Here the marketing manager alludes to the fact that the new V8 engine, which the factory otherwise claims is brand new, takes a whopping 10,000 revolutions per minute. The old 5.2-liter V10 had to be 'noused' with 8,250 revolutions at the same time.
– We didn't come up with a normal four liter V8 biturbo, we came up with something that is – let's call it… unexpected…
– Because yes, we could have easily pulled a V8 engine off the shelves and put it in the car. And I also think that the engine would have done well.
But that just wasn't an option. Building the engine from scratch was a requirement from day one (of the development work), says Federico Foschini.
Lamborghini also has something to have it all in. With 920 horsepower, 789 of them from the engine alone, the new hybrid car is frighteningly close to the territory of the top model Revuelto. That car has 1,015 horsepower from a 6.5-liter V12 engine. But completely without turbos.
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