So, this is a top-level Lamborghini supercar with a greater power-to-weight ratio than the Bugatti Veyron – one thing to think about along side that £450,000 price ticket. Predictably sufficient, it’s indecently immediate in strictly purpose phrases – but it surely feels even sooner nonetheless.

Lamborghini’s press check pressure was once carried out solely on the Vallelunga autodrome close to Rome in automobiles that couldn’t be pushed in different places as a result of they hadn’t been absolutely homologated or qualified. I will most effective believe what the Revuelto will really feel like at the highway, then – despite the fact that if the disdainful manner wherein it appeared to furl up and spit out the circuit’s longer straights is any information, ‘totally berserk’ must with regards to duvet it.

The pin-sharp, free- and fast-revving engine combines with the right away obtainable ‘torque fill’ of that electrical entrance axle to succeed in acceleration that is as dramatic as it’s unremittingly full of life. It’s ‘on’ right away – after which it simply assists in keeping coming.

Whilst Lamborghini V12s have historically wanted revs to in reality let unfastened, this one has electrical back-up, so the auto merely rockets clear of status or even takes to the air from middling revs, on section throttle and in upper gears, with an astounding sense of muscle.

There is nonetheless each explanation why to paintings that combustion engine, even though – and a substantial amount of brilliant, superb, bubbling V12 noise on be offering whilst you do. 

This automobile’s combustion engine feels very successfully joined and teamed with the brand new electrical portion of its powertrain – and aided and augmented via it, now not whatsoever at odds with it, and now not out-dazzled via it both. The V12 stays the dominant, unrelenting, number one trap and power of the auto, simply appropriately.

For brake really feel, in the meantime, the Revuelto does have a ‘combined’ pedal that mixes regenerative and friction braking (the place different PHEV supercars have elected for standard braking methods), but it surely doesn’t be afflicted by delicate, ill-defined pedal development or a surprising, crude leap between one kind of retardation and every other. 

“We in reality all in favour of brake-pedal power, slightly than commute, to outline how and the place we must mix within the friction brakes,” explains technical boss Mohr, “as a result of no person desires a sports activities automobile whose brakes don’t encourage your self assurance.”

Suffice it to mention, the Revuelto’s do – and, over admittedly brief stints of laps, in addition they appeared to have the outright persistent and resistance to vanish that you’d hope for.