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Lamborghini ditched its V10 for a V8 in the new Temerario. Here's how it sounds

Watch Top Gear's review of the 907bhp base car: "This is what baby Lamborghinis should be about"

Published: 24 Jul 2025
15 minutes 7 seconds

“I have to admit I loved the car because of the engine,” Lamborghini boss Stephan Winkelmann told TopGear.com about the old Huracán. That 5.2-litre V10 - which also did fine, fine service in the Audi R8 - has been retired from very active duty, and in its place comes... a V8. A turbo V8. What? How? Why?

“We had to decide years ago, from scratch, to do something exceptional, completely new,” Winkelmann added, noting how the Temerario’s ambitions for outright power wouldn’t have “been feasible” with the old nat-asp V10. And this new 'baby' Lambo has a tonne of power: 907bhp to be precise, delivered right up to 10,000rpm. That's mad.

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Finally, we've had our first go in the new, more comfortable, still nutjob-quick supercar. How does that sound compare to the old screaming V10? And what's it like around a track? Over to Top Gear's Tom Ford for the answers...

Read the full Lamborghini Temerario review here

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