Lamborghini’s new $380K hybrid supercar redefines luxury tech

00:00 Speaker A

Ultra luxury car manufacturer Lamborghini, a $ 380,000 price tag with a new hybrid vehicle. And our senior car reporter Pras Subramanian spoke to the company’s president and drove the car. Pras, welcome.

00:16 Pras Subramanian

Yes, yes. The new Lamborghini Tamburio came out, hybrid super car. Now, they are now completely electrified by hybrids. You know, Lamborghini had to put a house very soon, but they had to turn it back. And you know, before we had a chance to drive the car, I talked to CEO Stephan Winkelmann about home plans.

00:55 Pras Subramanian

We have seen that a number of companies, including yours, have pushed the full home timeline back. What is the last of this?

01:06 Stephan Winkelmann

After looking at the acceptance curve of electric vehicles, we decided two things, which, as you know, compared to the thoughts of the global automotive industry. And therefore, it reduces the expectation for us in terms of growth rate. So we decided that the follow-up of Urus Phev will be a hybrid car again. And then we postponed our first model to understand when it came.

02:07 Pras Subramanian

So does it still make sense for Bev in the luxury world potentially?

02:17 Stephan Winkelmann

Potentially, we have to see it as we said here, not when technology is ready, but when time is ready and when it will be successful, and when customers accept it. And this is very important for a company like ours, because we offer dreams, not mobility.

03:03 Pras Subramanian

Yes, that’s why to direct dreams to mobility. They are not a mobility company. They, you know, they are an emotional performance company. In fact, this, you know, when combined with tariffs, it was something that emerged for really expensive cars, you know, how do you deal with it? What they do is absorb most of this cost and transfer some of them to their customers. They think it is unfair to reduce all the cost. This is part of the business decision with the company. Then we have a new trade agreement, that will help them. Oh, you know, the second, I asked the company’s future and that they saw this luxury home manufacturer, sorry, luxury car manufacturer, where they see themselves. And here he has to say.

04:17 Pras Subramanian

What do you see that the next 20 years brought to Lamborghini?

04:23 Stephan Winkelmann

Lamborghini is not about skin, no. It is about how much you earn for a newest technology for the future. Since the world is more complex, life cycles are shortened, investments are rising, technology is developing faster. So you have to keep up with it, and so we must grow to have awareness, image and a solid customer base, which appreciates our cars after 20 years. And if we keep up with the latest technology, it depends on us, but if we continue to be trendy determinants.

05:55 Pras Subramanian

As you know, electrification, tariffs, a kind of global uncertainty with higher rates, Lamborghini’s first half sales than last year, despite these issues that are still slightly higher, more than you can say about many luxury car manufacturers that have suffered recently.

06:25 Speaker A

What about the new car? He tested. How did it feel?

06:30 Pras Subramanian

Oh, the new car is simply, I think it’s quite surprising. His predecessor was called Huracán. This is the new Tamburio 1,000, ie 900 horsepower, almost 1,000 horsepower, right? Isn’t it a V8 going to 10,000 rpm? But what is really interesting about this car is that it is electric. So there are two engines in front, right? This continues every front wheel. Basically, when you rotate, it rotates the outer wheel faster and moves the car. So you almost feel that you can do something in this car, right? You can go 200 miles per hour, hit the brakes, you can really turn hard, and the car will do it. Almost like magic, cheating, alien technology, whatever you want. Oh, this car has everything and super fast. Due to turbo technology and electric motors, its predecessor V10 is not as high as Howling V10. This engine may be quite high, but if you use 10,000 RPM at this speed, you should not be on any local way.

08:06 Speaker A

Who, who? Who is the rival of this new car?

08:12 Pras Subramanian

So Lamborghini and Ferrari have been locked in the war for a while. Ferrari said we were one of a Lamborghini, they are not just our competition, but in fact they are really. There is Aston Martin, right? There is mclaren. To this level, at this price, you go up in terms of performance. I didn’t drive Ferrari 296, but I heard that the car was a kind of summit, and Tamburio is probably there, if not, maybe I’m not sure. I have to drive it.

08:50 Speaker A

Yes. This is the next task. Thanks Pras.