In what might be the most obvious outcome since discovering water is wet, Drag Times recently lined up Lamborghini's new 1015-horsepower Revuelto against a McLaren 765LT Spider. You can probably guess how this ended just from the numbers in that first sentence. Related: World’s First Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Revuelto: 2000 HP of Pure Insanity They thought the new Lamborghini Revuelto was slow. So they made it faster. Look, the McLaren 765LT Spider is a phenomenal piece of engineering. Its 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 produces 765 horsepower, which in any normal circumstance would be enough to embarrass pretty much anything else on the road. But this wasn't a normal circumstance. This was like bringing a very sharp knife to a nuclear war. Because the Revuelto isn't just powerful - it's what happens when Lamborghini's engineers decide that "enough" is a word that happens to other people. With 1015 horsepower from its hybrid V12 powertrain and all-wheel drive, it's essentially a physics experiment gone rogue. The kind of car that makes Einstein's equations need a lie down. The numbers tell the story better than words ever could. The Revuelto hit 60 mph in 2.70 seconds, which is about the time it takes most people to find their reading glasses. It demolished the quarter-mile in 9.87 seconds and the half-mile in 15.34 seconds. By this point, the McLaren driver was probably considering a career change. Even in the top speed run over half a mile, where the McLaren's lower weight should have given it an advantage, the Revuelto still came out on top: 177.86 mph versus the McLaren's 174.82 mph. In other words, she won without even breaking a sweat. To be fair though, this isn't even a fair fight. The McLaren is an incredible machine, but when your opponent has 250 more horsepower and all-wheel drive, you might as well be racing with your hazard lights on. Then again, perhaps that's the point. The Revuelto isn't just Lamborghini's new flagship - it's their way of showing what happens when you throw everything you know about performance cars into one carbon fiber blender and hit 'maximum'. The result? A car that makes other supercars look like they're moving in slow motion.
