Nobody has even driven Lamborghini's new 907HP Temerario yet, but the company's R&D boss is already talking about a 1,000+HP version. And they rejected a perfectly good V6 because it didn't have enough cylinders. Peak Italian madness, folks. Lamborghini has just announced that their brand new 907 horsepower hybrid supercar - a car that nobody outside the factory has even driven yet - isn't powerful enough. You see, Rouven Mohr, Lamborghini's R&D chief and apparently a man who thinks "enough power" is something that happens to other people, has been talking to Top Gear about the new Temerario's future.And if you thought 907 horsepower was sufficient, you clearly don't work at Sant'Agata. The current car's twin-turbo V8 makes 789 horsepower, which is already more than the old Huracan STO could muster even when it was having a particularly good day. But Mohr casually mentions they're only running it at 200PS per liter. Like it's a disappointment. Like somehow extracting more power per liter than most nuclear reactors isn't quite enough.He reckons they could bump that up to 220PS per liter, which would give them another 79 horses to play with. And then there's the hybrid system, which currently adds 148 hp but could apparently be turned up as easily as adjusting the volume on your stereo. Just add voltage and stand well back. The end result? "A four-digit number is possible," says Mohr, with the kind of casual tone most people use to discuss their weekly shopping list. That's right - they're talking about a Lamborghini with over 1,000 horsepower. And that's from it's ICE V-8 alone, without turning on the e-motors. Because obviously, what the world needs right now is a car that can alter the Earth's rotation. But perhaps the most interesting bit isn't about the power at all. It turns out they could have achieved all their performance targets with a V6 engine, just like Ferrari and McLaren are doing with their "entry-level" supercars. But they decided against it because it wouldn't be... Lamborghini enough.This is peak Italian logic. They literally had a solution that would have worked perfectly well, but rejected it because it didn't have enough cylinders. It's like turning down a Michelin-starred meal because it doesn't have enough courses. They even briefly considered creating a new V10, before realizing it would lose 20 percent of its power trying to meet future emissions regulations. And we can't have that, can we? Not when there are physics laws still waiting to be broken. And on that bombshell, I'm left wondering what the world will be like when Lamborghini finally achieves their apparent goal of building a car that can accelerate fast enough to travel back in time. Though I suspect the first owner to use all that power will arrive back in 1955 before they left 2025. And Lamborghini, I would very much like to test your theory about whether 1,000 horsepower is too much. For science, obviously.
