LAMBORGHINI HURACAN TECNICA

A short step towards a long goodbye

- GEORG KACHER

THEY CLAIM THE Tecnica performs equally well on road and track. But the Huracán is getting long in the tooth, and a fully electric Lamborghini sports car is nowhere in sight.

The pre-drive of the Huracán Tecnica last November was the farewell launch hosted by the longrunning CTO Maurizio Reggiani, except no one knew it at the time. A Lamborghini veteran, Reggiani was sidelined by the powers in Ingolstadt and Wolfsburg who are demanding a faster and more radical paradigm shift from combustion engines to EVs. Befittingly, it was the charismatic chief engineer who proudly presented the brand's second from last 100 per cent electric-free product based on the final version of this organically grown DNA. Like the Gallardo it was derived from, the Huracán mimics the Porsche 911 for variety in style, character and engineering applications. In addition to the coupé and spyder, the Encylopedia Huracánia bristles with genetic mutations from LP580-2 over LP610-4 and Evo 2WD/4WD to the Performante twins, the red hot STO and now the Tecnica. Later this year, the stacked Sterrato neo-crossover will take on the 2023 911 Safari in the sand-andgravel sweepstakes. Lamborghini and the Audi parent brand share the vocal and brawny V10 engine which went into production 20 years ago in 368kW 5.0-litre guise. After half a dozen updates, the latest 5.2-litre iteration is good for a remarkable 470kW, but when the EU7 emission bludgeon strikes in 2025 or 2026, it will long have been replaced by a turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 developed and built in-house specifically for the Huracán successor.