Lamborghini is ready to interchange the favored Huracan supercar in the course of 2024 with an all-new mannequin that may share little or no with sister model Audi and have a singular hybrid powertrain and platform.
The present Huracan has been round since 2014 and can lastly get replaced in Q2 2024 with the primary of the brand new vehicles prone to arrive in Australia by 2025.
CarExpert believes the brand new mannequin will nonetheless carry a V10, however will probably be an all-new Lamborghini-designed powerplant with a hybrid system.
Chatting with CarExpert on the opening of the revised Lamborghini dealership in Brisbane this week, the model’s regional director of Asia Pacific, Francesco Scardaoni, confirmed the brand new powertrain shall be hybrid and will have inadvertently admitted that it’ll even be a V10.
“That shall be a brand new V10, the brand new Huracan, to date we can’t disclose what engine shall be match to the automobile. However will probably be a hybrid. As a result of our hybridisation part, the Huracan shall be 2024 the place we are going to launch the hybrid model of the brand new Huracan, mid 24, we are going to launch the brand new automobile.”
Essentially the most thrilling information for Lamborghini followers, other than the potential of the V10 dwelling on in hybrid kind, is that the brand new Italian supercar won’t share its coronary heart with an Audi, as was the case with the Huracan and R8.
“Lamborghini grew to become one of the crucial worthwhile manufacturers inside the group this 12 months, we set one other file 12 months when it comes to working revenue…. and since being the model with the very best profitability, after all you’ve gotten the facility to ask sure issues and in addition to self-fund the undertaking.”
The brand new Huracan will comply with the V12 flagship hybrid. This will even be joined with the hybrid Urus SUV earlier than the all-electric 2+2 Lamborghini arrives in 2028.
Don’t anticipate Lamborghini to comply with Ferrari’s lead in making a close to limitless variety of new fashions primarily based on related platforms, both.
“We need to have a reasonably clear differentiation between the vary, our prospects are asking to maintain the fashions fairly differentiated, we’re constructing goals and we want to verify prospects are dreaming of Lamborghini.”
Clients ordering a brand new Huracan Tecnica now will see their automobile in 2024, across the identical time we’re prone to see the Huracan substitute.
In response to Lamborghini Australia boss, Peter Crombie-Brown, the common Lamborghini purchaser in Australia is 45 years previous and is 91 p.c prone to be a male. Most are entrepreneurs and really tech savvy.
