The launch of the Huracán LP580-2 effectively gives Lamborghini two different Huracán platforms on which to base other models, and the company’s insistence that we should not see its newest variant as being merely a base version leads to wonder whether any other variants will be allowed to share its power-oversteering, fun-to-drive ethos.
There definitely won?t be a rear-drive Aventador; a phrase that looks scary even when written down, with Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann?who may be leaving for Audi Quattro next year?telling us at the launch of the LP580-2 that he thinks it would be too much of a handful. ?The Aventador will always stick to four-wheel drive,? he says. ?It?s all about safety in this case because the torque of the V-12 engine is immense and the drivability would be very tricky with only rear-wheel drive. So we will definitely stick to four wheel drive.?
And the Huracán" Unlike its predecessor, it was designed with a rear-driven variant in mind from the very beginning?the two-wheel-drive Gallardo (and Gallardo Spyder) was not much more sophisticated than a standard car with its front driveshafts removed. The Huracan LP580-2 loses the electrically operated clutch pack on the LP610-2 as well as its propshaft and related front-drive hardware. Losing them saves 72 pounds in weight, a relatively modest amount, but enough to make the rear-drive Huracán the obvious base for any future Superleggera version.
?The Huracán was always designe...