Five things we learned about the Lamborghini Temerario from the people that built it

According to Paolo Racchetti, the new Temerario skids like a Sterrato when you use drift mode, feels like a Performante in Corsa mode and like a Technica in Sport mode.

There’s a real emphasis on increasing the car’s bandwidth with electronic trickery, thanks to the torque of the e-motors and the new powerslide helper which Paolo tells us is “like a predictive driving mode, you won’t feel what the car is doing, the idea is you won’t notice it’s helping you".

Having a 10,000rpm twin-turbo V8 behind the cabin and an electric drive front axle means that, on paper, there’s not much room for luggage in the Temerario. The similarly packaged Ferrari SF90 barely has enough boot space for a toothbrush. Forget the paste.

But Paolo Racchetti explains that Lamborghini’s decision to use smaller, lighter axial flux motors means the Temerario actually has a slightly bigger boot under its front bonnet than the old Huracán, which has to package a bulky front differential in the AWD versions.

Plus, the new car has space for fitted luggage behind the seats, making it the most shopping-friendly Lambo since the, um, Urus.

With hybrid Ferrari values on the slide and McLaren Artura sales in the toilet, there’s been a growing feeling that the sort of people who regularly spend a quarter or even half a million pounds on a waist-high spaceship just don’t want – or care about – hybrid drive.

But Lamborghini’s boss of marketing and sales Federico Foschini (predictably) disagrees. “For sure, Europe has a higher acceptance of hybrids,” he says. “But in a sports car it’s about adding performance and dynamics. This makes the car easier to drive. The connection between CO2 reduction and increased dynamics is accepted because it comes from motorsport, like innovations such as carbon fibre, turbocharging, and how hybrid boost. There has been no pushback on Revuelto.”

Federico estimates that on top of a standard Lambo RRP, buyers add between 15 and 20 per cent to the cost of their car in personalisation and options.

“We don’t push the customer [to pay extra],” he says, “but 95 per cent of the car can be personalised through our Ad Personam bespoke programme.”

Because everything sounds cooler in Italian, right? 'Alleggerita' translates as ‘lightened’, and in the case of the Temerario, you get 50kg more downforce (thanks to a new splitter, ducktail spoiler and side skirt combo) and can save 25kg in kerbweight with the natty carbon fibre rims.

It’s the most circuit-focused Temerario for now, but we’re certain that more stripped-out and downforce-hungry Superleggera and STO versions will follow soon enough.