CROUCHING TIGER
MOTOR Magazine Australia|January 2020
SANTTAGATA POWERS ITS BABY BULL TO 470kW COURTESY f OF THE PERFORMANTE POWERPLANT, BUT ALSO PROMISES A CHASSIS TO MATCH gWITH NEW ALL-WIREEL STEERING
DYLAN CAMPBELL
CROUCHING TIGER

THIS HAPPENS OFTEN in car company land. A whiz-bang new halo model emerges and then, what feels like only a year later, the base model is facelifted and gets all the goodies of the previous halo car, which now seems a bit dated. Coincidence? More like cleverness — car companies know what they're doing.

Case in point: the new Lamborghini Huracan Evo. More than the Huracan’s biggest update since its launch in 2014, the Evo is a Performante in everything but name — and one other major exception which we'll get to. That means it’s in with the Performante engine, the most aggressive iteration of the Lamborghini/Audi 5.2-litre V10 yet. A redesigned inlet tract and higher-lift intake cams with titanium valves — and presumably some ECU fiddling — combines with the existing 12.7:1 compression ratio and 8500rpm maximum engine speed for a fairly staggering 470kW at 8000rpm and 600Nm at 6500rpm, up 21kW/40Nm on the outgoing LP610-4.

The seven-speed dual-clutch paddleshift transmission remains though in fairness it had little room for improvement, while the big news in the chassis department is the fitment of the Performante’s trick rear-steering system. Lamborghini, meanwhile, has ditched the previous letters/numbers naming convention — to make the cars more marketable, it says — so you and I would be the only ones calling it the new LP640-4.

That, of course, was the Performante’s name under the previous naming convention, yet the Evo differs in one significant way and it’s not just the lack of super-sticky Pirelli P-Zero Trofeo R tyres — no, don’t think your Evo is going to set a 6:52.01 around the Nordschleife, unless you retrofit the Performante’s Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva (ALA) active aerodynamics, of which the Evo misses out entirely.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 2020 من MOTOR Magazine Australia.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 2020 من MOTOR Magazine Australia.

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