A $753,000 Lamborghini with 1050 horsepower and a fixed rear wing shaped like an angry lawn dart should be the most terrifying thing on four wheels. It isn’t. The new Revuelto SV, driven for the first time at Italy’s Vallelunga circuit, turns out to be less about brute force and more about surgical precision.
That’s the quiet contradiction at the heart of Lamborghini’s latest Super Veloce. The nameplate has always implied unhinged fury, a bull that’s slipped its handlers. But the 2027 Revuelto SV is the most composed V-12 Lamborghini ever built, a car that uses racing hardware and smarter electronics to make its massive output easier to exploit rather than harder to survive.
The numbers tell a deceptive story. System output rises just 49 horsepower over the standard Revuelto, hitting 1050 hp and 1051 lb-ft from the same 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V-12 and three electric motors. The real gains come from a larger 7-kWh battery pack, up from 4 kWh, which can now deliver 254 electric horsepower instead of 187.
That extra juice is most obvious when the front motors haul the car out of tight corners with startling violence.
Don’t expect it to dominate drag strips, though. Car and Driver estimates a 2.1-second sprint to 60 mph, just a tenth quicker than the base car, and certain Chevy Corvettes will still gap it in a straight line. Top speed actually drops three mph to 214, a tax paid for the aggressive aero package that generates 80 percent more downforce.
The chassis tells the real story. Lamborghini ditched the adaptive magnetorheological dampers for manually adjustable passive units, a move straight from the racing playbook. New Brembo CCM-R Plus carbon-ceramic brakes with 16.5-inch front rotors provide stopping power that reportedly stays consistent lap after lap.
Center-locking wheels wear Bridgestone Potenza Race R tires, track rubber that happens to be street legal, sized 345/30 at the rear. Despite weight-saving measures across the chassis and body, the bigger battery claws most of it back. The SV still tips the scales at roughly 4300 pounds.
That’s a lot of car to hustle around a racetrack. Yet by all accounts, it hustles. Front-axle torque vectoring, rear-wheel steering, and a new vehicle dynamics sensor keep the SV planted through corners at speeds that seem implausible for its bulk.
A new Pilota mode in Corsa offers five stages of traction control, letting drivers gradually approach the limit without pulling the safety net out entirely.
Not everything works flawlessly. The Pilota control knob on the steering wheel is slow to respond and adds to an already cluttered helm. More than one driver reportedly triggered the windshield wipers mid-hot-lap, an indignity no one should suffer at this price point.
Production is capped at 1963 units, a nod to the year Ferruccio Lamborghini founded his company. At $753,000 before options, and with a near-endless personalization catalog designed to inflate that figure quickly, the SV is a rich person’s track toy masquerading as a road car. Fixed-back racing seats are among the options, offering slightly more headroom in a cabin that could use it.
The pattern here is familiar. Every generation of supercar gets faster, heavier, and more electronically managed. What Lamborghini has done with the Revuelto SV is use that electronic management not to dull the experience but to widen the window where a driver feels heroic.
The V-12 still screams, the cabin still vibrates with mechanical fury, and the exhaust tips will still singe your arm from six feet away. Whether a car this approachable deserves the SV badge is a question Lamborghini’s most devoted customers will debate long after the allocation list fills up. It already has.
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