We are effectively living in a post-horsepower world. As the roster of production cars offering quadruple-digit output figures continues to expand and a growing number of garden-variety vehicles now offer straight-line acceleration that would have been exclusively supercar territory a decade ago, serious thrust is quickly becoming an expectation rather than a rarefied experience.
This trend might seem like an existential dilemma for an automaker with a legacy built on face-melting performance, but Lamborghini has never really been the type to obsess over the numbers. Sure, the Aventador SVJ set a production car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 2018, but the company has always championed emotional impact above all else.
At the press launch for the Aventador SVJ, Maurizio Reggiani—Lamborghini’s chief technical officer at the time—made a point of telling the assembled journalists that despite increasing headwinds from emissions regulations, Lamborghini would continue to produce a supercar with a naturally aspirated V12 for as long as it possibly could. “I will fight it to the end!” he declared to boisterous applause.
Source : https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/three-electric-motors-a-v12-and-1001-hp-driving-the-lamborghini-revuelto/
