2025 Lamborghini Temerario Goes Green with 907-HP V8 Hybrid

Kyle Patrick
by Kyle Patrick
A turbo V8 produces almost 800 horsepower on its own. Image credit: Lamborghini

Say goodbye to V10, and hello to 10,000 rpm.


Here it is: the replacement for the beloved Lamborghini Huracan. The Italian automaker debuted the Temerario in Monterey on Friday, with the latest baby supercar going hybrid just like its big brother the Revuelto. The Temerario ditches the V10 in favor of a turbo-assisted V8, one that revs to 10,000 rpm and works with a trio of electric motors to produce a combined 907 horsepower.

Those motors are pretty clever, too. Oil-cooled, axial flux designs similar to those found in the Revuelto, they're surprisingly compact, and tip the scales at just 34.2 lb (15.5 kliograms) each. One sits sandwiched between engine and eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, while the other two tuck in behind the front wheels. This gives the Temarario all-wheel drive like its predecessor, but with torque vectoring and without a driveshaft running from one end to the other. Power comes via a 3.8-kilowatt-hour battery pack: Lambo won't even quote an all-electric range, because that's not really the point, is it? What it will dish out are the basic performance figures: a sprint to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 2.7 seconds, and a top whack of more than 210 mph (338 km/h).

That's one nice green. Image credit: Lamborghini

The whole package comes wrapped in styling that would be wild for any other manufacturer, but looks almost—whisper it—demure for a Lamborghini. It's quite pretty, with smoother styling than the outgoing Huracan. The thin headlights and creased hood are more traditional; the cool, hollowed-out, hexagonal LED daytime running lights are not. Lambo's been on the hexagon train for over a decade now (since the Sesto Elemento concept), and they're all over the Temerario. The taillights, the exhaust, even the gas cap: all are hexagonal. The rear design incorporates flying buttresses around the engine bay. Perhaps our favorite aspect of the design is the dramatic cutaway at the corners of the rear bumper. It shows off the serious rubber mounted out back—which, this time around, hides standard carbon ceramic brakes with 10-piston front calipers and 4-piston rears.


Inside, the Temerario does the typical fighter-jet thing for Lambo, with lots of sharp angles and that flip-up starter button. The flat-bottom steering wheel frames a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, with a portrait-orientation 8.4-inch central touchscreen. Passengers get in on the action with a thin, 9.1-inch screen built into the dashboard. Owners will have access to a telemetry app, wich will track progress on over 150 circuits from around the globe. Lamborghini is also including more external cameras, all with an eye on driver entertainment.

Cue the fighter-jet themes. Image credit: Lamborghini
Kyle Patrick
Kyle Patrick

Kyle began his automotive obsession before he even started school, courtesy of a remote control Porsche and various LEGO sets. He later studied advertising and graphic design at Humber College, which led him to writing about cars (both real and digital). He is now a proud member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), where he was the Journalist of the Year runner-up for 2021.

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