Hi everybody !
We just arrived in Foux d'Allos
It's at two hours and half from Nice
For the Motor Show of Foux d'Allos, it's the second year I come here
And this year I have a huge spot, it will be great !
(suspenseful music)
(engine turning over)
(engine revving)
- This is the Lamborghini Huracan Performante.
And it's the car that not only set,
but shattered the production car lab
record on the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
by nearly five seconds.
Think about the car that held the record previously,
the Porsche 918 Spyder.
The 918 almost cost a million dollars.
And made nearly a thousand horsepower.
The Performante?
How did it go 4.99 seconds quicker?
This puppy's got a secret weapon.
What is it?
Watch and find out.
(gentle music)
(engine revving)
The first thing you should know about
The Performante is the working title
was the Supperleggera
which is a classic Lamborghini name.
In fact Maurizio Reggiani,
the head of R&D for Lamborghini
and a Volkswagen board member,
he wanted to call it Superleggera.
But the thing is,
the car is about performance,
not just light-weight.
So they call it Performante.
Which is how you say performance in Italian.
- [Voice Over] That said, the weight is down.
We weren't able to weigh the car,
but figure, the Performante
is about 100 pounds lighter
than your garden-variety Huracan.
How'd they do it?
Largely, forged carbon.
The first time we saw Lamborghini use forged carbon
was for the chassis of the wildly sinister
Sesto Elemento.
For the Performante,
forged carbon is used for the front splitter,
the big rear wing,
and the uprights it rests upon,
as well as the rear diffuser.
The rest of the weight savings come from
the new back pressure-relieving exhaust system.
Which is not only lighter and louder
than the basic car, but more importantly...
- It gives the Performante more power.
So, it's the same 5.2 liter,
40 valve, naturally-aspirated V10
that you'd find in the regular Huracan,
only here, it's topped off by this
beautiful gold head
straight off the Super Trofeo cars.
Hey, Lamborghini,
Racing improves the breed.
That gold head combined with new intake,
and exhaust valves,
plus the aforementioned
lower-back pressure exhaust system,
means the Performante has 30 more horsepower
and 40 more pound feet of torque.
So far so good, right?
And it all does sound impressive.
But it's only half the story.
(engine revving)
(intense music)
So much torque!
180...
220 kilometers an hour.
237.
250!
(laughs)
It's so fast!
And it's just like a Lamborghini.
It's just brutal!
Ahh!
(laughs)
Jeez.
- [Voice Over] The Performate is freakishly,
forcefully, ferociously quick.
With 631 horsepower, and about as much
weight to haul around as a Ford Focus RS
this should come as no surprise.
Remember, the regular-strength Huracan
is among the quickest accelerating cars we've ever tested,
this special performance version
should blow some hair pieces clean off.
Hey Veyron owners,
you're on notice.
Acceleration aside,
how does it handle compared to the average Huracan?
- If you remember our video with that
Kermit-the-frog-green Huracan,
you remember we loved the way it handled.
Why?
Well because that one was a fixed-spring example.
Most of the Huracans out there
have magnetic-ride control,
and, let's be honest,
they weren't very good.
- [Voice Over] The run of the mill Huracan
was Lambo's first attempt of implementing
magnetic dampers.
That iteration wasn't ready for prime-time,
and as a result, the car was an under-steering mess.
The wickedy unhandled Aventador Superveloce, however
was their second attempt.
And a major success.
- Now, their third attempt is the Performante,
and I got to tell ya,
(laughs)
They really, really nailed it.
The other complaint with the Huracan
was the ABS system,
it was as if the breaks couldn't keep up with the car.
Well they fixed that too,
that was one of the priorities
that Reggiani's group had
when they were making the Performante.
- While the off the shelf Huracan's ABS system
wasn't properly calibrated to deal with
that car's abilities,
the Performante's system is nearly invisible.
The breaks now work in lock-step harmony
with the all new, super stickies
specifically designed for this car
Pirelli courses.
- So where braking used to be a short-coming
with the Huracan,
not with the Performante.
I need to stress to you
that the Performante
is more than just a body kit and the loud exhaust pipes.
Every where you look, everything has been revised.
The transmission shifts quicker.
The all wheel drive system puts down power better.
The springs are stiffer.
The roll bars, stiffer.
The ESC system.
The nannies, they're better.
Everything about this car is just boosted to the max.
I mean when comparing it to a normal Huracan,
it's just a different car.
It really is.
It's outstanding,
It's astounding.
This might be an episode where we let
the car do the talking
because it has so much to say.
(gentle music)
- [Voice Over] For you skeptics
saying we've seen all this before,
ya haven't.
Trust me.
When Porsche takes a GT3 and gives it the RS treatment,
they make it edgier and racier.
The performance envelope is expanded,
but anyone this side of Randy Pobst
would not be able to access the extra performance.
That is not the case with the Performante.
Why?
Because this car has a secret weapon.
- The Performante's secret weapon is called ALA,
as in Aerodynamica Lamborghini Activa.
Basically, it's an innovative way to do
active aerodynamics.
Not only is it innovative,
Lamborghini patented it.
Not only did they paten it,
when they presented this technology to the Audi board,
a certain board member proclaimed
"Why didn't Audi invent this?"
Here's a quick and dirty explanation
of how it all works.
Up front you've got a splitter,
in that splitter, there's a little electronic flap
so when there's too much drag, it'll open up
increasing down-force
but reducing drag.
The same principle applies at the rear;
these uprights are hollow,
they're fed by these intakes right here.
The air goes up through the uprights
and exits out a slit on the bottom of the wing.
Just like up front,
there's two flaps that can open and close
that can control that.
- [Voice Over] We've all seen moving rear wings,
think Bugatti Veyron, any modern McLaren,
or even Lambo's own, Centenario.
They all work, especially as air brakes.
But there are three major problems with them.
First, while the wings themselves
are carbon fiber and light,
the hydraulic fluid and the pumps necessary to float around
are heavy.
Next, hydraulic wings take about one second to fully deploy.
Think of the ground you cover while you're waiting
for an air brake to change it's angle of attack.
Finally, when they do deploy,
they're only acting on the rear of the car,
which causes the front end to go light.
A light front end means under-steer.
Not ideal when you're braking for a corner.
- ALA fixes all three problems.
It's quick, these flaps take .2 seconds to open and close.
It's light because it's just hollow carbon fiber.
And it keeps the weight distribution the same
because it's working front and rear.
Now, that all sounds really good in a board room,
but how does it actually work out on the track?
Brilliantly!
That's the only word for it.
It is brilliant.
As I'm turning right,
there's still down force on the inside wheel,
but there's no force on the outside wheel,
so it rotates more,
meaning it needs less steering input.
Less steering input means you're going quicker.
Just everything about this car is just designed
to make you feel heroic.
(laughs)
(intense music)
So the active aerodynamics on this car,
they help you go faster, they help you brake harder,
and they help you turn better.
And then you combine the active aerodynamics,
with every other improvement they've made.
And the car is just...
It's a confidence builder.
I can't tell you how confident I feel
behind the wheel of this car.
I'll tell you what this car reminds me of.
I'll never forget this one time
we lapped a GTR around Laguna Seca
there was a Ferrari engineer standing there.
And he says we know everything about that car,
we know how much it weighs,
and we fed all that information into our simulator,
and there's no way that car is as fast around
the Nurburgring as it is.
They must be doing something.
I remember Randy was standing there,
he goes "Yeah, I know what it is.
It's confidence, driver confidence."
That's the secret of the Performante.
That's the real secret.
That's the X factor.
That's the thing that they can't put in the press kit,
that you've got to get in the car
and experience for yourself.
Because it is mindblowing.
I am just blown away at this machine.
Just blown away.
After two magnificent days on Imola with the Performante,
my take away is this;
While many cars receive the hardcore track treatment,
the Huracan Performante plays in a league of it's own.
Lamborghini has outdone, not just the competition,
but themselves.
In terms of tracks, this is not just
the quickest Lamborghini,
it's the quickest street-legal production car
that you can currently buy.
If you're a good driver, it makes you great.
If you're a great driver, it makes you a hero.
And if you're a hero, chances are good
you just set a record on the Nurburgring.
To all you doubters out there,
we really did land men on the moon.
With the Performante, so did Lamborghini,
How did it do it?
Well.
Sorry it's really nuts to be going 160 miles an hour
turning, breaking.
- [Speaker] I was impressed.
(laughs)
- Ahh!
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