This makes it 20% stiffer, owing in part to use of aluminium extrusion – the construction method used by the featherweight Lotus Elise and Alpine A110.
Its dry weight of 1715kg can be cut to as little as 1690kg when equipped with the track-focused Alleggerita (‘lightened’) package.
Hardware
Stopping power comes in the form of 410mm aluminium disc brakes with 10-pot calipers up front and 390mm stoppers with four-pot calipers at the rear.
These are said to yield a 62-0mph stopping distance of 32 metres, on a par with the preceding Huracán Tecnica (31.5m).
Although the Temerario’s on-paper performance looks similar to that of the larger Revuelto, the two offer distinct characteristics, Lamborghini chief technical officer Rouven
Mohr told Autocar. Whereas the Revuelto is more serious and focused on outright pace, “the Temerario plays the role of the rebel that is challenging you – ‘let’s have fun, let’s have fun!’”, he said.
To that end, the Temerario is the first Lamborghini to offer a drift mode. This uses torque vectoring on the front motors to provide three levels of slip angle.
Mohr said this was inspired by the off-road-ready Huracán Sterrato, adding: “Our customers love this kind of thing, these play tools.”