Lamborghini Huracán

The engine is a 5.2-liter V10 developed with Audi (Lamborghini's owner since 1998) and shared with the R8, but the tuning, exhaust note, and driving character are deliberately different between the two cars, which share a platform but not an experience. The launch version, LP 610-4, made 610 hp with all-wheel drive (the "4" in the name).

Over its production run, the Huracán gained increasingly extreme variants: the Performante (2017) set a production-car lap record at the Nürburgring; the Evo (2019) added rear-wheel steering; the STO (Super Trofeo Omologata, 2020) is essentially a race car with a license plate, straight out of the brand's Squadra Corse competition program.

The Huracán is also the basis for Lamborghini's one-make racing series (Super Trofeo) and its GT3 category, the road car and the race car share more DNA than most rivals are willing to admit.

• "Huracán" is the name of a Spanish fighting bull from 1879, famous for its bravery in combat, not a direct reference to the weather phenomenon, though the word also means "hurricane" in Spanish.
• The Huracán's V10 is shared with the Audi R8, but each brand tunes the engine differently.
• The Performante was, for a time, the fastest production car around the Nürburgring.
• The STO is street-legal, but was literally born from a racing project, the name stands for "Super Trofeo Omologata".