Lambo Huracán Evo
More power, more downforce and more screen for V10 Lambo
Got your heart set on the facelifted Audi R8? Hold fire. Its Italian cousin, now known as the Lamborghini Huracán Evo, has also been given the once over.
Lambo has shifted the exhausts up the car’s backside, racecar style, to get the aero working more efficiently and has conjured lots more downforce in the process. The nat-asp 5.2-litre V10 now matches the Huracán Performante’s totals of 631bhp and 443lb ft. That’s enough to punt it to 62mph in 2.9secs and on to 124mph in 9.0secs. Flat out, 202mph is claimed.
Bit angrier looking, bit more poke. Lambo could’ve left it there, right? Nope, there’s a fiendishly clever on-board computer with a sexy Italian name (Lamborghini Dinamica Veicolo Integrata) which lets the four-wheel steering, stability control and torque-vectoring chat to each other and sort out whatever hamfisted inputs the human inside is making. Meanwhile, gyroscopes monitor your lateral, longitudinal and vertical accelerations, as well as roll, pitch and yaw rate, to suss out how big a moment you’re about to have on Park Lane.
Drive is still sent to all four wheels via a seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox, and, at last, you can alter the various settings to your own preferences, with an Ego setting in the Anima menu. Just like the Aventador S.
Inside, there’s a new touchscreen with Apple CarPlay integrated, right down on the centre console. A pretty thorough update for the entry-level Lambo, then. Question is, still want that R8? Or that McLaren 600LT? Or that Ferrari 488… OLLIE KEW