Lamborghini Huracán Tecnica 2023 UK first drive

How the hellhole bash you contradict thing arsenic exquisitely barbaric arsenic Lamborghini’s V10?

Unless you endure from acute philharmonic anhedonia, it’s not possible. The dependable this people aspirated 5.2-litre centrifugal makes is excessively rich, resonant, gut-wringing.

After a portion successful its institution and galore forays to 8500rpm nether your loop (sometimes you ambush the redline, flaring up to it; but sometimes you linger for the last stretch, revelling successful the aural chaos), you commencement to wonderment however galore get-out-of-jail-free cards this portion has handed retired implicit the years.

Not each Huracán, oregon the Gallardo earlier it, has been a dynamic delight. In the aged days the cars were flat-footed, and adjacent the existent Huracán Evo AWD feels synthetic successful absorption changes. Yet each and each 1 of them has had that undeniable mid-mounted charm dispenser to autumn backmost on.

What makes the Huracán Tecnica absorbing is that, of each the V10 ‘baby Lambos’ launched since the Gallardo made its debut successful 2003, this is the 1 that should beryllium slightest reliant connected its phenomenal motor to triumph hearts, minds and wallets. And truthful besides the slightest acrophobic of rivals astatine Maranello and Weissach.

A £204k run-out peculiar earlier the Huracán’s V8-hybrid replacement arrives aboriginal this year, the Tecnica is simply a stepping chromatic betwixt the fine, fluid, road-leaning Huracán Evo RWD and the Huracán STO, which is the nightmarish track-day flyweight of the scope and a genuinely awesome supercar successful conscionable the close circumstances. An STO’s precision with the Evo RWD’s malleability ought to beryllium a winning combination. And erstwhile we drove a Tecnica connected way astatine Ricardo Tormo successful Valencia past year, and connected the surrounding glass-smooth roads, it was conscionable that.

Here successful the UK, the situation is much challenging. However, the Tecnica inactive manages to nail immoderate sizeable highs. At 1379kg, its adust value is conscionable 10kg little than that of the Evo RWD but rear steering and tighter assemblage power mean it changes absorption successful notably crisper fashion, if not with rather the unrestrained hunger of the 1339kg STO. It has accuracy successful abundance but isn’t remotely matter-of-fact astir it.

Communicative, delicate steering loads up neatly connected the mode into bends, and erstwhile you’ve established immoderate confidence, you tin ever truthful somewhat airy up the rear axle connected exit, truthful agelong arsenic you’ve got the ESC disconnected oregon successful its much relaxed Sport setting. We’re not talking Ferrari 296 GTB levels of indulgence here, but the Tecnica is an highly polished performer connected method roads, to the grade that you mightiness conscionable hide astir the yowling, 631bhp V10 strapped to your back.

When it comes to details, the lone large vexation is the pedal for the carbon-ceramic brakes. It’s overly assisted, biting excessively hard and high, and the ABS involution is nervously keen, though furrowed B-roads and lone lukewarm, nearsemi-slick Bridgestones don’t help.

Is this capable to forestall the Tecnica from being considered the apogee of the Huracán lineage? No, it isn’t. But thing other is.

I don’t cognize wherefore Lambo refuses to springiness the Huracán an Ego mode similar the Aventador has, wherever you tin premix and lucifer settings for chassis and powertrain. Whatever the reason, the Tecnica suffers much than different Huracáns bash for the lack of specified a mode.

Only successful softest Strada are its suspension rates palatable successful the UK, yet Strada besides removes the claws from the powertrain. They instrumentality to glorious effect successful Sport mode, but past the damping is truthful unforgiving that to get capable load done the chassis and soil down the roadworthy surface, you’re courting outrageous speeds.

So the Tecnica is brilliant, but it besides frustrates. Driven ruthlessly, it’s an exemplar of the sizeable steps its shaper has taken successful caller years and is simply a existent rival to cars from McLaren, Ferrari and Porsche. But V10 oregon not, you would simply person much fun, much of the clip successful a 296 GTB, and that truly is undeniable.