18:43 23-11-2025

Lamborghini considers RWD Temerario and a purist V8

Lamborghini is weighing the idea of a rear-wheel-drive version of the new Temerario, the successor to the Huracan. Line boss Paolo Raccetti said the company is exploring several development paths, and dropping the front electric drive is seen as a realistic scenario. In standard form, the Temerario remains all-wheel-drive: even in Sport mode, ten percent of the power is sent to the front axle to boost stability.

Rear-drive Huracans once enjoyed strong demand—from the LP 580-2 to the extreme STO and the final STJ. It would be natural for the brand to revisit that formula for the new model, especially given the gains in weight and overall dynamics.

An even more radical option is also being discussed: removing not only the front e-motor but the rear one as well, ditching the battery in pursuit of the purest expression of the new V8. This flat-plane hot V8 produces 789 hp and revs to 10,200 rpm—putting it among the fiercest turbocharged V8s on the market.

A track-focused variant in the spirit of the Huracan Performante is on the table, too. On the Green Hell, it was the Performante that held the benchmark among Huracans, and Lamborghini makes no secret of wanting to repeat that success.

The Temerario has already become Lamborghini’s second-best seller, trailing only the Urus. Interest in the model is high, and a rear-drive version could lift demand even further.