Lamborghini is practically all set to introduce the Aventador’s very long-awaited successor. Referred to as the LB744, the company’s up coming flagship product adopts a gasoline-electric powered hybrid powertrain that’s created all over a new, in a natural way-aspirated V12 and rated at about 1,000 horsepower.
We will have to have to be affected person to find out the model’s exterior structure, but Lamborghini provided us with a quite good notion of what the specs sheet seems to be like. The system’s centerpiece is a mid-mounted, 6.5-liter V12 that eschews pressured induction — the business has beforehand made it clear that it would like to preserve the the natural way-aspirated 12-cylinder alive for as extensive as feasible. Although the Aventador was V12-run as properly, it appears like the mechanical similarities between the two vehicles close there. In the impending LB744, the motor is bolted to an eight-speed, dual-clutch computerized transmission which is mounted transversely guiding the engine instead of longitudinally specifically in front of it.
The corporation will require to locate a new name for the transmission tunnel: it now houses a 3.8-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. The electricity stored in it zaps 3 electric motors: a single is built-in into the transmission, while the other two are every assigned to just one of the front wheels. This layout delivers as a result of-the-street all-wheel-drive, so there’s no mechanical link amongst the axles, and it allows the LB744 to generate on electricity on your own for quick distances. The configuration also offers a torque vectoring perform for sharper cornering.
Lamborghini pegs the system’s full output at 1,015 metric horsepower, which signifies somewhere around 1,001 horsepower measured in U.S. terms. The bulk of the cavalry comes from the V12 it truly is billed as the lightest and most impressive 12-cylinder that Lamborghini has ever built and it develops about 813 horsepower at a screaming 9,250 rpm (which is 250 rpm small of its redline). Greatest torque checks in at 535 pound-toes. We haven’t listened to the new engine nonetheless, but Lamborghini stresses that it went to wonderful lengths to give it an exhaust notice deserving of a supercar.
Additional specifics about the LB744 will arise in the not-as well-distant upcoming.
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