The black Lamborghini Temerario, with a black interior, is based in Los Angeles. It is the newest car in our fleet, replacing the Huracan, with conventional doors and a roomier cabin that most people on Sunset Boulevard have not yet learned to recognize. Book it for the drive itself, up through the canyons above the city, not for a crowd standing still.
Three electric motors fill in before the twin turbos spool, so the 4.0 liter hybrid V8 responds instantly at any rpm with none of the lag a turbocharged engine usually has. Low down the engine is mechanical and businesslike, the version you want crossing Los Angeles traffic on the way out of the city, and it stays that way until about 4,000 rpm. Past that point, on the climb up Angeles Crest Highway, it changes character completely and keeps pulling hard all the way to a 10,000 rpm redline, the highest in our fleet by a clear margin. The front axle vectors torque wheel to wheel through the corners, so the car turns in and holds a line with far less drama than the number under the hood suggests.
Black on the Temerario is the stealth specification, and at night on Mulholland Drive it works in its favour rather than against it. The hexagonal daytime running lights double as intakes, and in the dark they are the one thing that reads clearly against the paint, with the city lights of Los Angeles laid out below as the backdrop. In daylight black keeps a genuinely new shape from looking loud before people know what it is, which fits a car that gets its attention from being unfamiliar rather than from colour. Shoot it low and from the rear to show the exposed rear tyres, the one detail everyone points at first.
This is the only Temerario in our fleet, so booking this model means booking this exact black on black car, and that is an honest trade worth making. Black keeps a genuinely new shape from reading as loud before anyone recognizes it, which suits a car that gets its attention from being unfamiliar rather than from paint. It also puts the newest Lamborghini in our fleet in the hands of a driver who wants the 10,000 rpm engine and the easier conventional doors more than a crowd moment standing still. If the point of the day is the drive itself, this is the right single car, and it is the one we run.
This is the Temerario, Lamborghini's twin turbo hybrid replacement for the Huracan. Standard equipment includes 18 way comfort seats with heating and ventilation, a 12.3 inch driver display, an 8.4 inch center touchscreen and a 9.1 inch passenger screen, plus the fighter jet style flip cover over the start button carried over from the rest of the range. The car has conventional doors rather than scissor doors. Underneath is a 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 paired with three electric motors for 907 hp combined, sent through an eight speed twin clutch gearbox to all four wheels. This car pairs that specification with black paint over a black interior, the quiet spec on the newest shape Lamborghini makes.