Review: 2025 Lamborghini Revuelto
This extraordinary supercar introduces hybrid technology to Australia, delivering both shock and awe.
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Strange things happen when you approach 300km/h on a racetrack.
Detail is stripped from your peripheral vision as your mind focuses on the most important information front and centre.
Braking and turning points appear closer than ever, as though you’re viewing the world through a telephoto lens rather than a helmet’s visor and steeply-raked windscreen.
The empty grandstand and race car pits either side melt into blurry coloured streaks with indiscernible shape or detail as we streak between them.
Tunnel vision meets time dilation - a sort of “slow motion” sensation as your brain captures and processes detail in ultra-high resolution, fuelled by adrenaline, cortisol and an elevated heart rate.
Simple physics suggests moving through space at a more rapid rate gives you less time to process information, make decisions, and act.
But the reality can be different as your mind hyper-focuses on the threat ahead.
In this case, it’s not a tiger or soldier, but a wall at Sydney Motorsport Park that will return my Lambo to its elemental carbon atoms.
Violently.
This is the fastest car I’ve driven.
It’s the only car I’ve tried that soars past 290km/h on the front straight here - and I’m lucky enough to have tried more than a few cars from the likes of Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche and Aston Martin.
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It’s the only car I’ve sampled with more than one thousand horsepower.
Unlike Ferrari, which puts a tiny and turbocharged V6 into its fastest car, Lamborghini has resisted calls to downsize its halo model in a drive for greener and more socially acceptable motoring.
Like the other bulls in its bloodline - the Miura, Countach, Diablo, Murcielago and Aventador - the Lamborghini Revuelto has a massive V12 bolted behind the driver’s shoulders.
Capable of revving to 9500rpm, the big motor makes 607kW of power.
The rest of the car’s 757kW stems from three 110kW electric motors - one driving each of the front wheels, and one wedged between the engine and transmission - that transform the car’s behaviour.
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Flooring the old Aventador in third gear was a bit like pressing play on a favourite rock song - you had to wait a bit for the intro and first verse to unfurl before riding the high of its chorus.
The Revuelto is like YouTube - it lets you go straight to the good bit.
And those hybrid motors are “Skip Ad” buttons fast-forwarding you directly to the action.
It makes you feel a million bucks.
Which is fair, as the car costs $987,000 plus options and on-road costs that push the real-world price tag into seven figures.
This staggering experience is more refined than previous efforts, despite being immensely more capable.
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Starting with the sound, Lambo’s latest has a smooth tone closer in nature to the crooning of U2’s Bono than Brian Johnson’s serrated AC/DC scream.
A new dual-clutch transmission shifts far more smoothly than the percussive slap of the old Aventador’s single-clutch unit, and sophisticated software linking the motors, rear-wheel-steering, front axle torque vectoring and electronic suspension let you exploit the car in new ways.
Old Lamborghinis were the embodiment of the brand’s raging bull badge - magnificent and dangerous machines that you had to grab by the horns to avoid being gored or trampled.
Carry the brake pedal too deep into a corner and the old Aventador’s huge V12 would try to overtake you, taking the rear-end with it while threatening to spin out of control.
It required caution that isn’t necessary in the Revuelto.
You can hustle the new machine with confidence it won’t bite, digging in to enjoy outrageous performance as it shrinks around you.
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Consistent controls and predictable reactions make Revuelto feel like you’re working with a willing partner, not fighting a force of nature.
But you couldn’t say it’s boring.
Those outrageous proportions, showstopping looks and interplanetary performance mean that a determined drive in the Lambo will be one you never forget.
Originally published as Review: 2025 Lamborghini Revuelto
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