Listen To The Lamborghini Temerario’s 10,000rpm V8 Fire Up

We’re a mere 10 days away from finally seeing the Lamborghini Temerario, Lambo’s new ‘baby’ supercar and the long-awaited successor to the Huracan. To keep us on the edge of our seats ahead of the car’s reveal during Monterey Car Week, Lambo has given us a taste of the noise produced by its astonishing new twin-turbo V8 engine.

The short clip only reveals what the car sounds like on start up. First, we’re treated to footage of the cars V10-powered predecessors – the Gallardo and Huracan – running up through their rev ranges on a rolling road. We’re then treated to the sight of a rev counter’s needle sweeping past the 9,000rpm mark, before the new car appears in heavy shadow and we hear its V8 fire up and settle into a gruff idle.

The car is internally codenamed ‘634’, but it’s widely expected to be called the Temerario after Lambo trademarked that name and a distinctive, bull-horned logo earlier this year. Like plenty of other Lambos past and present, that’s the name of a famous fighting bull, and is also the Spanish word for ‘reckless’ or ‘daredevil’.

The engine, meanwhile, is set to be a real feat of engineering. It’s a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, but apparently totally unrelated to the one found in the Urus and plenty of other rapid VW Group products. Its headline grabbing figure is an astonishing 10,000rpm, and it’ll also make a peak of 789bhp and 538lb ft of torque.

All of this is before the car’s trio of electric motors are brought into play, which by themselves will make 148bhp and 221lb ft. Lambo is being coy about total peak output, but something north of 900bhp is very much on the table.

Once it replaces the Huracan, the new car will complete a fully plug-in hybrid Lambo range, alongside the Revuelto and Urus SE. Production of the Huracan itself, meanwhile, is expected to wind up in December. If you’re hoping to snap up an end-of-the-line V10, though, then too bad – the entire run has been sold out since May 2023.