Lamborghini Temerario is Perfecting the Hybrid Formula!

0:00 All right, this is actually the second

0:01 time I'm shooting this video because my opinions

0:02 on this car have changed so much since the first time that I shot this.

0:06 So, take two.

0:07 Uh, Lamborghini.

0:10 When I say Lamborghini, you probably picture a certain type, right?

0:14 Like, every car has a type.

0:16 There is the Ferrari type.

0:18 There's the Corvette has a type, right?

0:20 Obviously, Lamborghini is a type.

0:22 And I've never really thought of myself as a Lamborghini type ever, actually.

0:26 I mean, I've driven their cars, clearly.

0:27 you guys know about them, but I don't know.

0:29 I've never really thought that I would be interested in owning a Lamborghini,

0:34 but I've gotten to test the Tamario for the past couple days,

0:37 their newest hybrid, and it's crazy.

0:41 Lamborghini only makes hybrids now.

0:44 They have gotten to get really focused on hybrids,

0:46 and it turns out they've gotten really good at it.

0:49 And uh this Tamario, this thing right here,

0:52 is their newest and latest, and I would say greatest.

0:55 And uh I like a lot of things about it.

0:58 There's still some things that I really don't like.

1:00 So, I'll show you that, too.

1:02 But damn, this thing's good.

1:03 So, here it is.

1:04 You could consider it the Huracan replacement.

1:06 And the Huracan is legendary, obviously.

1:08 So, they don't want to get rid of any

1:10 of the aesthetics and the things that made the Huracan so successful,

1:14 but they also obviously have a lot new going on here.

1:16 So, the basics are this is a mid-enine supercar.

1:20 is all-wheel drive and that comes from a 4 liter twin turbo V8 in the back

1:26 and then two electric motors at the front plus another one in the gearbox.

1:31 Altogether they make combined I think the number is around 900 horsepower.

1:37 Uh so it can do 0 to 60 in the twos

1:40 and obviously a 10ish/4er mile and also this car costs $500,000.

1:47 I think it starts a bit below that.

1:49 This one's fully loaded, but half a million dollar car.

1:52 So, for that price, of course,

1:53 there are a lot of things to really like about the Timario.

1:55 I'll speed through some of my favorite things.

1:57 Starting at the front, aesthetically,

1:59 these headlights are kind of a signature of this car.

2:02 Now, you can see how they kind of have this hood above them from the top.

2:05 Because the car is so low,

2:06 you hardly ever actually see the tail light, but it's down in there.

2:11 And it looks really mean and aggressive from the front.

2:13 And that's also the DRL and the blinker, the radiators, the whole thing.

2:17 It looks great from the front.

2:19 Aesthetically, I love it.

2:20 It's got this red pin striping on the front of this carbon fiber diffuser.

2:23 And there is a lot of carbon optioned on this car.

2:28 You look at the side, it's it's a pretty familiar silhouette.

2:30 You got the red pin striping here, red pin striping down here on the side.

2:35 It says Tamario over here.

2:38 Big air vents functional on the side.

2:41 And the hidden uh door handle right underneath there.

2:44 More functional arrow up here.

2:45 more functional arrow in here.

2:47 The engine back here, we'll get to that in a second.

2:49 It's a brand new engine that revs to 10,000 RPM, but then the back.

2:55 Damn, I think this is the best back of a car they've ever made.

3:00 Is that that might be a crazy take,

3:01 but I think this is an incredible looking back of a car.

3:03 Like, this is the view you'll normally have right about here, right?

3:06 If you're behind it, and it's really quick,

3:07 so you'll probably spend a lot of time behind it.

3:09 First things first, big center-mounted exhaust up at the top.

3:13 A ton of open space.

3:15 Like there's a lot of air moving through here.

3:16 You see the backs of the radiators.

3:18 The lights look really good.

3:20 That's made of carbon.

3:21 And then the rear diffuser kind of pinches in in the middle here,

3:25 leaving this huge amount of exposed tire on the back.

3:30 Couple thoughts on that.

3:31 One, I think it looks really good.

3:33 Kind of looks like a jet.

3:35 Uh, also the reverse light is down there, kind of like race cars.

3:39 Two, I'm not sure how legal this is because three,

3:43 this throws up a ton of rocks and chips and stones,

3:47 and whatever you're driving through, if you're behind the Tamario,

3:52 you better hope you have PPF or something cuz you're going to be feeling that.

3:54 But either way, aesthetically, this thing is awesome.

3:57 There is a ton of carbon fiber up here

3:59 on this spoiler and this whole rear deck lid.

4:02 All of this right here is optional carbon.

4:04 And I think this option together is like $80,000 or something like that.

4:09 So you're going to see a lot of Tamarios that don't have this much carbon,

4:12 but still looks great.

4:13 You can see the V8 and the firing order of the cylinders down in there.

4:17 It looks really good.

4:18 Okay, so lots to like about the aesthetics of the Tamario.

4:22 I will point out for anybody wondering that there

4:24 is a decent amount of front trunk space.

4:27 You grab this little latch right here and pull it to open.

4:30 And this short hood sort of flips open.

4:32 And that is enough room for exactly what I've needed

4:35 for this day trip out to California to review this car,

4:39 which is a duffel bag and a backpack and a tiny bit more on top.

4:43 That's about all you can fit in there.

4:45 And that's about all I need.

4:46 So great.

4:48 There's just so much functional arrow here.

4:50 Look, you can see the air comes in right at that front splitter and shoots

4:54 up at the top to keep the front of the car stuck to the ground.

4:56 There's a lot going on.

4:57 Okay, for that money, you would think that you'd love the interior as well.

5:02 And this is where it starts to get a little bit more nuanced with my take.

5:06 So, let's get inside the Tamario.

5:10 So, in here, it starts to get racy, sporty Lamborghini, as you'd expect it.

5:15 I'm sitting in these really stiff carbon fiber bucket seats that look amazing,

5:19 but are uh not heated or ventilated or power moving.

5:23 They are manually adjusting and that's normal for buckets

5:27 but not super comfortable for driving for a long time.

5:30 Uh and then you have this new looking interior

5:33 here with the steering wheel with carbon fiber on it.

5:36 The Italian flag colors are everywhere.

5:38 The hexagons, lots of Alcantara and then also the screens.

5:42 So this is the primary display.

5:44 You've got the driver display back here.

5:46 And you've got a secondary display for the passenger over there.

5:49 Lots of carbon.

5:50 I have a huge amount of carbon in the door here.

5:53 This is part of that package that I said cost like $80,000.

5:57 So, you kind of can't miss it.

5:59 Uh, again, you'll see a lot of Timarios that don't

6:01 have all of this, but you see the Lamborghini patterns everywhere.

6:04 You see the speakers in the door.

6:07 All of that is is very pretty and very race car.

6:11 But, uh, I don't love all of this.

6:13 See, if you've been watching the channel for more than a couple of days,

6:15 you've already seen we uploaded our ZR1

6:18 review for that Corvette right over there.

6:22 And that is an incredible performance car in a lot of ways similar to this one.

6:26 Maybe even competing against this one.

6:28 Track focused straight from GM.

6:31 But that is a very livable uh functional, practical interior.

6:37 Uh this one, not so much.

6:38 Like the Corvette had cup holders.

6:40 Lamborghinis.

6:42 Not so much a fan of cup holders.

6:43 Not really any of those in the middle of this car.

6:46 I also would really like a place to put my phone in most cars.

6:49 And while these are the two most likely spots for you,

6:53 again, the Corvette had wireless chargers and all that.

6:55 This is just a spot to put your phone, which is it's fine.

6:59 It kind of slides around.

7:00 It doesn't charge or anything.

7:01 And you could plug it in with one of these USBC ports,

7:03 but it's not very readable.

7:04 And then this spot back here.

7:06 And then there is no storage in here.

7:08 That's just kind of that's it for your phones.

7:10 But the steering wheel, there is a lot going on.

7:12 I do like most of it.

7:13 I like that it's leather and has the carbon

7:15 up here and then the 12:00 red dash here.

7:17 Uh but I hate this.

7:20 I hate this.

7:21 These are the blinkers on the steering wheel.

7:23 And I I never really love blinkers on the steering wheel.

7:27 You can get used to it if you have the left one

7:28 on the left side and the right one on the right side somewhere,

7:31 but they put them both on the left side and you like tap it

7:35 to blink three times or hold it to put the blinker on and then hit off.

7:38 I just I hate this.

7:40 This is my least favorite blinkers probably in any car, which is a shame.

7:44 But, you know, a lot of this is just me nitpicking.

7:46 Like I said, I'm not the Lamborghini type.

7:48 You don't have to appease me.

7:49 There's lots of people who buy the Corvette who want it to be more practical.

7:52 This is a much more raw, aggressive version of that car.

7:56 So Miles is going to talk about driving it in a second,

7:58 but let me talk you through a little bit

7:59 of the tech that makes this such an interesting hybrid.

8:02 So foot on the brake, Lamborghini push to start.

8:05 So first thing you notice is it starts up fully electric and silent

8:10 in EV mode and everything's blue and that's the default for this car.

8:15 No cold start needed yet because you might want

8:17 to sneak out of your garage and maybe a little

8:19 bit out of your neighborhood before firing up that 10,000

8:22 RPM V8 uh and not waking up your neighbors.

8:25 So, that's actually a useful feature and people do drive their Lamborghinis

8:28 in front-wheel drive and fully electric mode because of that feature.

8:31 So, that's nice.

8:32 And then from there, this hybrid system is pretty intuitive.

8:35 You have your drive mode selector over here and then

8:38 your EV mode change over here on the right.

8:41 So, if I want to switch from EV mode to strata or street mode,

8:45 it will switch back and forth between electric and gas.

8:48 And then on the right, you can switch between hybrid and recharge.

8:52 So, it has enough battery, like I said, to drive on fully electric,

8:55 but you can either choose to plug it in or recharge it with the engine.

9:00 So, you might never have to plug it in.

9:01 Just switch it to recharge mode.

9:05 You'll hear that engine actually fire up and now

9:08 you'll be able to recharge the battery with the engine.

9:10 So, ideally, you never actually have to plug this car in.

9:13 Just treat it like a gas car.

9:14 It's a hybrid, and that's great.

9:16 Of course, on the left, you also have sport mode.

9:20 You can hear the valves open up a little bit

9:22 and Corsa and Corsa ESC off are all available to you.

9:26 All the colors change.

9:27 It gets a little more aggressive.

9:28 The shift logic changes.

9:30 A whole bunch changes with driving this car.

9:32 Now again, there is a lot to like about driving the Tamario,

9:36 but the software is not one of those things.

9:39 This is the screen you have

9:40 for your your main Lamborghini built software experience.

9:44 And it just it looks I mean I get that they want the like

9:48 fun cool holo graphic type of aesthetic thing but it does kind of look

9:51 ancient like that's your uh it's intuitive

9:54 but that's your temperature control or this which

9:58 takes a while to get into your temperature and fan speed stuff here.

10:03 So that's kind of silly.

10:04 You can do your uh your custom control shortcuts over here on the right.

10:08 Or you can use these built-in settings, which are which are which are these.

10:15 I don't know.

10:15 This is the type of thing I will instantly put wireless Android Auto

10:18 or Apple CarPlay over the top of and never think about it again because again,

10:22 there's no place to put my phone uh and see it.

10:25 Well, I just This is a car that like

10:26 forces you to use Android Auto or Apple CarPlay.

10:29 So, you know, maybe this is a car that you never even really

10:32 think about any of that stuff because

10:33 you're too focused on the driving experience, which is batshit insane.

10:39 This is okay.

10:40 In the lineup, you can think of this as like the little brother to the Revoto,

10:45 which is their big NAV12 hybrid.

10:47 So, you know, Ferrari had the SF90 and the 296.

10:50 This would be more of a comp to the 296.

10:53 And I like a lot of what it does

10:55 in that category of being smaller and more nimble.

10:59 Uh, first of all, it's ridiculously quick in a straight line.

11:03 In any sort of driving situations, it's unbelievably quick.

11:07 Revving it to 10,000 is something that you'll hear Miles talk about in a minute,

11:12 but it just never gets old.

11:14 I get it.

11:16 And I mean, I I was obviously driving it

11:19 in the canyons in a lot of the footage that you'll see,

11:21 but we were driving it at night,

11:22 and it turns out it shoots flames, like 4ft flames from the factory.

11:28 This is a normal exhaust.

11:29 People are going to straight pipe this thing and it's going to do crazier stuff,

11:32 but this is a a very rowdy raw version of, you know, a hybrid.

11:38 Like, you don't see hybrids that have

11:40 this rowdy raw experience like this very often.

11:42 I would say the 296 is much more refined if it wants to be.

11:46 This doesn't have a refined chill mode.

11:49 So, anyway, this is this is a lot of car.

11:51 I' I've I've come to really understand it much more now

11:54 that I've spent more time with it and actually driven it.

11:57 But, uh, for those driving details and for those dynamics notes,

12:02 take it away, Miles.

12:16 There is so much going on in this car.

12:21 So, I mean, where do we begin?

12:23 We've got a twin turbo V8 that revs to 10,000 RPM.

12:28 And this is a hot V,

12:29 which means the turbos are supposed to sit inside the valley of the engine.

12:33 But the turbos are so big that they won't fit.

12:36 So, they just have to sit on top of the valley.

12:39 And the turbos have electronically controlled wastegates,

12:41 so lag isn't really a big concern here.

12:45 [laughter] Oh my god.

12:48 There's an axial flux motor in the transmission.

12:52 It's a transverse 8-speed dual clutch similar

12:55 to what you have in the Lamborghini Revoto.

12:58 It's a flat plane crankshaft that's using a very

13:01 similar copper alloy to what you've got in Ducati superbikes.

13:06 This this is easily one of the most complex interesting engines

13:10 that's ever been put in a modern supercar from an engineering standpoint.

13:14 And what that results in is what you're hearing.

13:17 It really does just seem like a big V8 superbike with massive

13:21 turbos and a hybrid system shoved inside of a mid-enine platform.

13:25 And who's to say if a setup like this is going to be reliable in the long term,

13:30 I couldn't tell you.

13:31 But what I can tell you is that this is an incredibly incredibly fun

13:37 car to drive because of the way they've set up the gearing for this car.

13:41 The 10,000 RPM in combination with the gearing allows

13:45 you to really just work your way through the gears.

13:50 That was like 6,000 RPM.

13:52 I think it really allows you to kind of enjoy the process

13:56 of reaching that red line kind of like chewing your favorite meal very slowly.

14:01 It's a it's it's a nice experience and really allows

14:04 you to feel like you're getting something out of the experience.

14:06 It's a neat hybrid system.

14:07 You've got a small battery giving you like 4ish miles of electric only range.

14:14 Uh it's really just to be able to leave your garage

14:16 in the morning without upsetting your neighbors if you have any.

14:19 But from a dynamics perspective,

14:22 it really does give this car an instantaneous shove.

14:25 Lamborghini's biggest task with this car was trying

14:28 to come up with a way to have a new engine that not only pleases those who were

14:33 fans of the naturally aspirated V10 and the Huracan,

14:36 but also take things a step further, make this car even more thrilling,

14:41 more engaging, more Lamborghini as far as the the experience.

14:45 And I truly do think that this car doesn't need the hybrid system,

14:50 but I'm not mad that it's here as well.

14:52 But it has also made this car incredibly heavy.

14:55 I think this car might be just within

14:58 100 or 150 pounds of the Lamborghini Revoto, which is so much larger.

15:03 Has a massive naturally aspirated V12.

15:07 Yet, this car almost weighs the same.

15:10 Uh, but to be honest,

15:12 you don't really feel the mass the same way you do in the Lamborghini Roaldto.

15:16 This truly does feel nimble in the corners.

15:19 It's easy to control.

15:20 It's easy to drive.

15:22 It is a little twitchy and a part of that is

15:24 due to the steering feel which I'll talk about in a second.

15:26 But it is genuinely confidence inspiring.

15:30 It doesn't feel like it's held back by the weight

15:32 because I mean 4200 lb with 900 horsepower.

15:36 I think that that's that's a nice ratio I think.

15:39 But the steering feel it's probably my least

15:41 favorite thing about this car for sure.

15:43 It is feather light.

15:45 It truly is just so light.

15:48 And when just like accelerating in a straight line,

15:50 sometimes you feel the steering wheel kind of get a little

15:53 twitchy and lighten up in a way that I don't really like.

15:56 Um I'm not sure if Lamborghini did that on purpose

15:58 to kind of give this car a sense of like edge.

16:02 Um but I would have really loved

16:04 for this car to have a bit heavier steering feel.

16:07 This transmission, 8-speed transverse, dual clutch with an axial flux motor.

16:14 Unlike the McLaren Ruro, which also features an axial flux motor in the gearbox,

16:18 this one actually has a mechanical reverse gear,

16:21 so you don't have to rely on electric power to go into reverse, which is good.

16:26 They've got that signature

16:27 Lamborghini transmission responsiveness programmed in.

16:31 On every shift in Corsa mode, the chassis snaps.

16:34 It's violent, but it's also not laggy.

16:37 You're not experiencing those cuts in power like

16:39 you do in like a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ.

16:44 Perfect for the street, for performance driving, perfect for the racetrack.

16:49 Uh, very, very good transmission.

16:52 10 out of 10.

16:52 No notes.

16:53 From a driving perspective, nothing's really changed as far as negatives go.

16:58 It's still not comfortable to drive in long distances.

17:01 It's kind of jerky unless you're driving in an electric mode around town.

17:06 It's super low to the ground.

17:07 You know, you're constantly paranoid about scraping this car

17:11 when entering a driveway or a slight incline.

17:14 It's got all the same cons that come with having a Lamborghini.

17:19 Obviously, the tech is not where it could be.

17:22 But my biggest fear going into driving this car was

17:24 me being worried that it was going to be Porschei,

17:27 which means hyper competent on a technical level and dynamically excellent, uh,

17:32 but just lacking the theatrics and all the things

17:35 that we've come to know and love about Lamborghini.

17:38 But [laughter] after driving this car,

17:41 I don't know why I was ever worried to be honest.

17:44 It may not have the sensationalism,

17:47 the theatrics of like a Diablo GTR or a Mercy SV or an Aventador SVJ,

17:54 but this might be peak Lamborghini drivers car.

17:58 Everything they've done from an engineering perspective has made this probably

18:03 the most enthusiast focused Lamborghini

18:06 for on-road driving that I've ever driven.

18:12 Yeah, this this is this is one of those ones.

18:16 But that's about it.

18:18 Uh got to go back to the cold New Jersey now, which I'm not super excited for.

18:25 Talk to you guys in the next