2025 Lamborghini Revuelto review

7NEWS

4 days ago

The Lamborghini Revuelto needs no introduction. It's the replacement for the Aventador and the first proper hybrid Lamborghini. Two equally difficult tasks.
With plenty of customer examples of the Revuelto already around and the initial hype around the car having died down, we took the time to take Lamborghini's flagship model for a full experience on the road, on the racetrack and even down the drag strip alongside its rivals.
It's impossible to talk about the Revuelto without comparing it to the Aventador, so let's get that out of the way. Having spent extensive time with both, I can say the Revuelto is almost incomparable to its predecessor. Where the Aventador was overwhelmingly imposing and intimidating to not just look at but very much to drive, the Revuelto is incredibly civilised.
Driving the Revuelto is easier than the soon-to-be-replaced Huracan. With its super modern drivetrain and great forward and rear visibility, the Revuelto feels very much like driving a low riding sports car rather than $1 million-plus supercar. You can trust it with your grandmother behind the wheel, where the Aventador felt like a wild… well, bull.
For the absolute majority of buyers, the new generation of Lamborghini's V12 supercar is an incredibly rewarding experience to own and drive. Where the Aventador felt like it would throw you through the windscreen on each gear change, the Revuelto is smoother and faster. It's the sort of car you can drive for long distances – and we did – without ever feeling uncomfortable. It even has cupholders.
If you really want to annoy some EV evangelists, you can post photos of yourself charging it on your home AC charger with the caption 'doing my bit for the planet'. It's very much the sort of car that can get you home silently at ungodly hours at the end of a Coldplay concert.
All these things are nice, but does anyone buy a V12 Lamborghini because it can now drive itself in electric-only mode? Or that it runs in near silence so you can listen to your favourite music? Probably not. There are plenty of other cars that can do smooth, silent and comfortable well. That is not just what Lamborghini is about.
Driving a Lamborghini is an event. It's about the show, the emotion, the feeling of being terrified by the sound, the feeling and the rawness that one gets being behind the wheel. Somehow – and it's hard to really pinpoint how – Lamborghini has managed to keep all of that while making the Revuelto compliant with today's draconian regulations and super accessible to a much wider range of potential owners.
If you ignore the Porsche 911 being a supercar, the Revuelto is undoubtedly the best everyday supercar we have ever tested. You can drive this from Brisbane to Sydney and stop over at a few racetracks along the way. Or win a drag race with virtually any car at a set of lights (or at a dragstrip) and go home without feeling like your body has been through an emergency landing.
Rumour has it that Lamborghini will do a Ferrari and retire its models far more quickly, and create new ones using the same platform but with different body styles. Which makes sense, as each production run would have fewer vehicles and remain more unique without affecting future models. That would make the Revuelto an even rarer beast with production virtually all accounted for.
Before you read the rest of this review, watch our interview with Lamborghini chairman and CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, conducted in a Revuelto.
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How much does the Lamborghini Revuelto cost?
The 2025 Lamborghini Revuelto starts at $987,000 before on-road costs, so realistically you will be paying around $1.3 to $1.4 million for yours depending on options and colours.
It's an expected price increase over the Aventador, which launched in 2011 at $789,000. This is no different to what the folks at Ferrari did when it came to pricing their new 12Cilindri, relative to the 812 Superfast.
In many respects Lamborghini's price increase is modest. Remember that a new entry-level Porsche 911 now starts at almost $300,000 and just a decade ago you could get one for about $200k. A cynic would argue that some of these companies are raising their prices in anticipation of the luxury car tax being abolished, but we are not that cynical.
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What is the Lamborghini Revuelto like on the inside?
The Revuelto's interior is the best of any series-production Lamborghini to date. It's comfortable, easy to get in and out of, while also being practical thanks to technology that works and visibility that would make government bureaucracy-loving boot-lickers happy.
It's almost too good to be true for a Lamborghini V12. The pedal position is not completely ridiculous! You no longer have to fold your lower half to the left in order to reach the pedals. The steering wheel is perfectly sized and allows for clear viewing of the 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster behind it.
That said, the steering wheel does feel like it belongs in a plane rather than a car. With 16 buttons, four rotating knobs and two paddle shifters attached, it can feel a little overwhelming when you first jump in, but once you get acclimatised all of those easily accessible features makes driving the Revuelto a more enjoyable experience.
It's also well thought-out. The upper knobs on each side control the powertrain, with the driving mode on the left and EV mode on the right. The lower left knob controls the dampers (and nose lift), while the lower right one handles the aero.
We found the 8.4-inch vertically oriented infotainment screen to be a welcome relief from the archaic old Aventador system that never left the early 2010s despite a decade of updates.
The infotainment touchscreen is super responsive and, when paired with a 9.1-inch passenger screen, allows you to do some pretty cool things, such as being able to grab certain features and modules on screen with multiple fingers and gesture them toward another desired screen (passenger or instrument cluster) then see them pop up like magic. It's very unlike Lamborghini to have cool technology like that. Then again, this is a supercar for the modern era.
The front 'boot' is also far better designed than in any other Lamborghini coupe we have seen. Though it still offers just enough space for a soft bag and a few other things you and your head of HR can pack for that work weekend away, you can set the locking mechanism to remain open so you can safely pass a cable through to keep your 12V battery trickle charged.
The seats in the four different Revueltos we drove on the road, at the track and on the drag strip where all supportive and comfortable. We would love to see what a full single-piece carbon-fibre race seat would feel like in the car, but we're also not sure that would suit the character of the Revuelto all that well. Perhaps Lamborghini will save that for more racetrack-focused versions of the car.
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What's under the bonnet?
Ferrari and Lamborghini are both obsessed with keeping their naturally-aspirated V12s alive, and for good reason.
This is their most important unique selling point. China already builds electric cars that are faster accelerating than anything coming out of Italy, so it's no longer to do with speed.
Much like a mechanical watch going up against an Apple Watch, the idea of having a fire-breathing naturally aspirated V12 sitting behind your ears is one of the main reasons Lamborghini can charge what it does for the Revuelto.
Although it displaces the same capacity as the Aventador engine, this is an entirely new unit that is designed from the ground up to work in tandem with the car's hybrid electric system.
On the internal combustion side, Lamborghini's 6.5-litre V12 makes 607kW of power at 9250rpm, and 725Nm of torque at 6750rpm.
The hybrid system uses a tiny 3.8kWh lithium-ion battery positioned between the driver and passenger seat. To put that battery capacity into perspective, Ferrari uses a 7.5-7.9kWh battery for the 296 and SF90 respectively.
The electrically driven front e-axle offers 220kW, which when married to the tiny battery means you will get at least 8-10km of electric-only driving range. You can indeed plug it in at home on a proper AC charger (which takes around 30 mins to charge the battery at 7kW) or let the V12 charge it when you are driving.
When you add it all up, the total power output of the Revuelto is 747kW (it's not a direct science of adding engine and motor outputs together).
Given the two electric motors on the front axle weigh 18.5kg each, one could easily argue that making the battery a little bit bigger would have made sense to increase the EV range, but then again the Revuelto's primary reason for having a hybrid powertrain is performance, not efficiency.
With that lens, the battery's size only needs to be big enough to supply power at its peak on a racetrack for a few laps before you let it recharge, much like a Formula 1 car.
Unlike the seven-speed automated manual gearbox hell that Italian company Graziano fitted to the Aventador, the Revuelto makes use an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission (DCT) that Lamborghini says is designed and engineered in-house.
It would be fair to assume that the wider Volkswagen Group's deep expertise with DCTs has come into play here, and we are incredibly glad of that being the case.
As a result of this significantly upgraded automatic transmission and V12 engine, plus its electric power assistance systems, the Revuelto is claimed to accelerate from 0-100km/h in just 2.5 seconds. About the same as a modern-day Formula 1 car.
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How does the Lamborghini Revuelto drive?
There is nothing quite like the sound of a naturally-aspirated V12 at full scream. It's literally what dreams are made of. As terrible as the Aventador is to drive, there is no mistaking one at full scream. No matter what you are doing, where you are or what is happening around you, every car enthusiast the world over will stop and listen with joy as one passes by at high RPM.
While it's not quite as loud, thankfully the heart of the Revuelto is still very much audible and high-pitched. We must thank the Italian government for all but forcing the wider socialist European Union to allow low-volume production cars to continue with such engines.
In that respect, another generation of Lamborghini V12s is saved from ever-tightening regulations designed to remove all joy and happiness from car enthusiasts the world over.
Now that some time has passed since the Revuelto was released, many aftermarket companies have managed to remove the OEM exhaust and replace it with units that add so much more volume that Aventador owners might start to feel jealous.
If you are buying a Revuelto, you can ask your friendly dealer to fit a valve-opener post-purchase, which will give the car a lot more character in the lower end of the rev range. Even so, you will eventually want to replace the exhaust in full, because it should be a crime not to allow such a marvel of engineering to breath and scream as the Roman gods intended it to.
Alas, the numerous Revueltos we tested all had stock standard exhausts (but with a valve bypass). This did not detract from what is an incredibly engaging and ballistically fast car to drive.
When Ferrari released the SF90, our initial thoughts were that the car was simply just too fast to be considered a normal road-going car. Many years have passed and our thoughts on that are still the same.
The same can be said about the Revuelto. More than 1000hp and a 0-100km/h time of 2.5 seconds is virtually unusable on public roads these days, unless you intend to end up on your state police force's Facebook page and get the unenviable job of reading all the comments from keyboard warriors about how 'money doesn't buy brains'.
We have spent a lot of time with the Lamborghini Revuelto lately. We took our time with the Revuelto around Brisbane's inner suburbs for a few days, before taking it up for a spirited drive around Mount Glorious/Nebo. We then spent a day at Sydney motorsport park putting in lap after lap and being gob-smacked by the sheer pace and composure on offer, before taking another Revuelto out to a regional airport in Wyalkatchum in Western Australia to drag race it against the likes of the SF90, McLaren Senna and so many others.
Our overall driving impression of the car is that it's close to perfect. There are so many characteristics on offer here that see the Revuelto go from being a comfortable daily cruiser to get you down to Coles, to becoming a super focused track machine – all the while able to banish virtually any car in a straightline drag race.
On the road and in the right settings, the soft suspension and high ride height sees the Revuelto become a very practical daily commuter. We suspect many owners will chose to drive their vehicles significantly more frequently than the Aventador, which would be great to see.
Switch a few knobs to get the car in the right sport or track setting, bring the rear spoiler up for maximum effect, make sure your battery is full and ready to go, and you now have yourself one of the most capable sports car on the road. Despite actually being wider than an Aventador, the Revuelto feels like a Huracan in terms of how nimble and easy it is to drive fast.
We pushed it as hard as we were willing to around the twisty mountain roads of Brisbane and came out super impressed by how it cornered, braked and distributed its torque around tight corners by using the electric motor on the front axle. Compared to the SF90, the Revuelto feels more composed and its power delivery more linear, making it much easier to drive around twisty roads.
Even at speed and fully loaded, it also deals with impurities and bumps on the road without much fuss. The suspension can be independently set regardless of engine and transmission modes, making it ideally suited to whichever surface you find yourself tackling.
There is just so much power and torque on offer here that the 0-100km/h time is barely half the story. It's how it keeps going well beyond jail-worthy speeds that will keep you smiling. Again, we will reiterate that an aftermarket exhaust will improve this experience immensely.
On a racetrack the Revuelto's easy-going nature seems to vanish and it becomes a far more focused supercar. Despite weighing 300kg more than the Aventador, it hides its 1880kg kerb weight well, thanks to a myriad of clever electronic systems and that incredible powertrain.
We pushed as hard as Lamborghini would allow us to, which was nowhere near the car's full potential, but even then one can notice the Revuelto is tuned to default in its handling to suit an inexperienced driver. Even with the traction control and all other settings set to race mode, the level of driving assistance and torque vectoring in and out of corners seemed a little excessive around Sydney Motorsport Park.
Around the tighter turns, the front axle pushes the power to the appropriate front wheel in such a way that the Revuelto feels like it's unnaturally steering in the desired direction. It's a helpful feature but it will definitely get some getting used to.
It's clear that the standard Revuelto is super capable on a circuit but also that the Italians have kept a fair bit in the bank for future iterations of the car (whether they're called Revuelto derivatives or not remains to be seen) that will be more focused towards the racetrack. Realistically though, the limits of the Revuelto are already well and truly above most drivers.
As for our time behind the wheel for drag racing? Keep an eye on our YouTube channel for all the Revuelto drag races coming up. But let's just say, it came home on top.
As a driver's car, it's hard to fault the Revuelto for what it is: the most multipurpose and capable supercar you can buy right now. With the addition of a new exhaust, the driving experience will be just like an old Lamborghini, but without all the negatives.
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Is the Lamborghini Revuelto safe?
No independent crash data exists for the Revuelto.
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How much does the Lamborghini Revuelto cost to run?
Lamborghini offers a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty for all of its models in Australia, plus five years of free servicing in the case of the Revuelto.
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CarExpert's Take on the Lamborghini Revuelto
Purists will argue that a V12 Lamborghini should be imposing and scary to drive, making you fear for your life and grateful each time it returns you home in one piece.
That's an argument we love and still support philosophically but, in 2025, those who want that can still buy an old Lamborghini. But for the rest of us, the Revuelto is a revolutionary update for the brand.
It combines super-refined, hypercar levels of performance with the absolute best characteristics of Lamborghini ownership: looks, emotion and sound. Having tested even the likes of the super-rare Lamborghini Sian and the new Countach, we can say with absolute certainty that the Revuelto is the best Lamborghini yet.
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