2027 Lamborghini Revuelto SV review: Quick drive

Imagine if the scintillatingly rapid Lamborghini Revuelto could be honed to such a degree that its hair-trigger responses became even sharper – essentially, a 4K ultra-HD version of the raging bull brand’s plug-in hybrid V12-powered flagship supercar.

As it turns out, this isn’t a crackpipe-fuelled flight of fantasy, as the Bolognese marque is now putting the finishing touches on an electrifying new Revuelto spearhead that reprises the ‘Super Veloce’ moniker that first appeared 55 years ago on the Miura SV.

Lamborghini’s boffins have left no stone unturned to eke out incremental gains in every dynamic facet, with the Revuelto SV’s powertrain, chassis and aero all being fettled with the aim of not only sharpening lap times but also heightening driver engagement.

Lamborghini has coined the catchphrase “quantum of driving” to define the Revuelto SV, and what this is meant to convey is a nirvana-like state in which the experience of piloting the car is so immersive that any thoughts other than focusing on the next braking point or corner entry recede into oblivion. 

It sounds like pure marketing-speak, but there’s substance to the claim, as I’m about to discover...

How much does the Lamborghini Revuelto cost?

In a nod to the brand’s founding year as an automaker, only 1963 examples of the Revuelto SV will be produced globally and, while no set number has been allocated to specific markets, the order book for Australian buyers will likely open in early 2027.

While local pricing is yet to be confirmed, we’d expect it to command a 15-20 per cent premium over the standard model.

Given the base Revuelto starts at $987,000 before on-road costs, we’d suggest the SV will start somewhere between $1.15 and $1.2 million (plus ORCs). And the price will rapidly inflate from there if you go berserk with personalisation options via the Ad Personam program.

Its telephone-digit price tag will put the Revuelto SV in a rarefied domain as the only competitors even vaguely within the same bracket are the Ferrari 849 Testarossa (from $932,648 plus ORCs) and the limited-edition McLaren 788HS (from $1,078,800 plus ORCs). Each of these hypercars is rocket-ship fast and dripping with wow factor, but neither the McLaren nor Ferrari has a powerplant that can match the spine-tingling sonic signature of the Lambo’s titanic 6.5-litre V12.

Of course, Ferrari also offers the 12Cilindri, but the prancing horse’s V12 offering is more of a grand tourer than an extreme supercar.

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What is the Lamborghini Revuelto like on the inside?

The interior of the Lamborghini Revuelto SV takes the marque’s ‘feel-like-a-pilot’ philosophy to a new level via a bespoke motorsport-inspired steering wheel, ultra-lightweight carbon-fibre door panels, and specially developed racing seats.

As standard, the Revuelto SV features Sport Seats with a carbon shell structure. These pews combine the visual character of a racing seat but with greater daily practicality and ample adjustment possibilities.

In the prototype we drove at Nardo, it’s immediately apparent that these are far more comfortable than the seats in the standard car – the position behind the wheel is better, and there’s improved support for the lower lumbar region. 

There’s plenty of carbon-fibre trim throughout the cabin, helping save weight and creating an ambience that feels suitably racy and special – as befits a low-volume hypercar. 

The SV’s minimalist interior harmonises with Revuelto SV-specific graphics and animations in the UX design. As soon as the door opens, an emotive animation of the Revuelto SV on the display welcomes the occupants. 

Exclusively, the Revuelto SV features the new Pilota Mode drive selector in red on the right side of the steering wheel, which can be used to activate different levels of traction control settings.

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What's under the bonnet?

The immense 6.5-litre V12 is the crown jewel of the Revuelto, and model line director Alessandro Farmeschi refers to the powerplant as a “monument”.

He concedes a lighter and more compact twin-turbo V8 could deliver just as much grunt while being easier to package (as capably illustrated by the Temerario), but there’s no way it could replicate the V12’s sheer charisma and intoxicating banshee-like soundtrack.

The 825hp (607kW) combustion engine remains unchanged in the Revuelto SV, but Lamborghini has amped up the hybrid component of the powertrain, with a key element being the bigger new 7.3kWh lithium-ion battery pack, which is a notable step up from the 3.8kWh battery used in the standard Revuelto.

The larger battery pack powers the electric motor that supplements the V12 in sending drive to the rear axle, as well as the two e-motors up front, to eke out 190 electrified kiloWatts.

This boosts the total output to an impressive 1065hp (783kW) – a power increase of 50hp (37kW) over the garden-variety Revuelto. More tellingly, peak torque is boosted to a stump-pulling 1425Nm, a massive increment over the standard model’s 1200Nm.

Lamborghini claims the newly developed battery system ensures up to four times greater performance consistency compared to the standard Revuelto, delivering sustained output and repeatability even under extreme track conditions. 

The combo of a screaming, high-revving non-turbo V12 and hybrid assist spears the Revuelto SV from 0-100km/h in a claimed 2.4 seconds, while 0-200km/h is dispatched in just 6.7 seconds on the way to a top speed exceeding 345km/h. 

The V12’s spent gases exit through a high-performance exhaust system – specifically tuned to the SV’s powertrain – featuring two hexagonal tailpipes in matte grey. The tailpipes are also available as an option in matte black and a classy matte bronze. 

The Revuelto SV’s suspension also represents a major revision from the base car’s semi-active magnetorheological-damper configuration, as it rides on passively adjustable dampers derived from Lamborghini’s GT race program. 

With four adjustment valves per damper, each with 13 settings (selectable by jacking the car up and removing the wheels), this setup enables the perfect calibration to be achieved for any track – be it flat, bumpy or wet. It also enables the car to be configured precisely to suit different driving styles.

Also unique to the Revuelto SV is a new CCM-R-Plus brake system that elevates stopping power to almost race car levels. With massive 420x40mm rotors at the front and 410x32mm discs at the rear, the bespoke braking system surpasses the efficacy of the standard Revuelto’s already high-performance CCB-Plus discs. 

One of the Revuelto SV’s biggest dynamic breakthroughs comes via a 6D sensor that’s coupled with the car’s vehicle dynamic control logic to mastermind all the electronic chassis-control systems. Although less than palm-sized and innocuous to look at, the 6D sensor is Einstein-esque in its brain power.

Installed strategically close to the vehicle’s centre of gravity, the 6D sensor’s function is to provide measurements of the acceleration on all three axes (lateral, longitudinal and vertical) in real time, as well as the angular velocity also for all three axes (pitch, roll and yaw). 

This enables the ‘Integrated Vehicle Estimator’ to predictively control the vehicle’s dynamics, which means any interventions by the stability-control and ABS are so instant and miniscule that you barely perceive them from behind the wheel. The impression you get in the driver’s seat is that it’s you who has godly skills as a pilot (even though this may be far from the truth).

Super-sticky rubber is also part of the Revuelto SV recipe, with the all-new Bridgestone Potenza Race R semi-slick (essentially a counterpart to Michelin’s Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tyres) optionally available alongside high-performance Potenza Sport tyres, as well as the winter-focused Blizzak LM005. 

Be warned, though, the Race R rubber wears at an alarming rate, especially on an abrasive circuit like the Nardo Handling Track.

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How does the Lamborghini Revuelto drive?

A handful of laps around the gnarly Nardo Handling Track aren’t much to go on, but this is all we get to glean whether the SV delivers meaningful real-world gains over the already stellar Revuelto in terms of both pace and feel-good factor.

Handily, Lamborghini’s events team has brought along a standard Revuelto for benchmarking, and a brief on-track stint in it provides a refresher of how eye-wateringly fast and visceral even the base model is. 

Grip levels are stupefying, the car’s overall balance is superb, and the V12 and supplementary electric motors provide intergalactic levels of thrust out of slow corners.

Stepping out of the low-slung Revuelto, one wonders how the package could be improved in any meaningful way. 

Trickling out onto the circuit behind the Temerario pace car – piloted by Lamborghini’s ace test and development driver Giacomo Barri – the Revuelto SV’s upgrades don’t take long to sink in. 

Turn 1 at the Nardo circuit is a fast, open left-hander, immediately followed by the much tighter Turn 2. It’s arguably the trickiest section of the track as you enter Turn 1 at 250km/h-plus and then simultaneously brake through the latter part of the corner to wipe off enough speed for the looping Turn 2.

Compared to the standard Revuelto, the SV’s super-sticky Bridgestone Potenza Race R semi-slick rubber (optional) means it feels more planted and secure through Turn 1, and credit here is also due to the SV’s bespoke aero package (including a GT3-inspired fixed wing), which provides 80 per cent more total downforce than the standard car. 

Traction out of slow corners is leech-like, with the gargantuan 1425Nm torque quota being laid to the tarmac without wasteful wheelspin. 

The SV’s eight-speed dual-clutch transmission uses the same hardware as the standard Revuelto, but revised calibration means upshifts and downshifts have even more whipcrack urgency. 

Any straight or straightish sections of the track are simply annihilated, so your brain needs to quickly reprogram as corners rush up in a seemingly unrelenting blur. 

It all might sound a bit overwhelming, but it’s actually not. The thought of hustling a 783kW/1425Nm hypercar around a challenging, unforgiving circuit like Nardo might have been cause for mild trepidation in the lead-up to the event, but any such preconceptions are almost immediately banished.

As rapid and violent as it is, the Revuelto SV is also intuitive and forgiving, so it’s possible to very quickly get up to speed and begin edging closer to the car’s limits, safe in the knowledge that the electronic safety net has your back even if you overstep the extremely high grip threshold. 

A hat tip here is owed to the new brainiac 6D sensor and Integrated Vehicle Estimator as – even though there’s enough computing power operating in the background to launch the Space Shuttle – the perception from behind the wheel is of a very organic car.

Any interventions by the traction or stability control system occur seamlessly and virtually imperceptibly, so you feel as though it’s you alone who’s responsible for the on-track heroics.

The huge carbon-ceramic stoppers provide running-into-a-brick-wall levels of retardation, and they remained consistent over our four-lap track stint, even though Nardo has a handful of super-heavy braking points where high triple-digit speeds need to be wiped off in a hurry. Just as reassuring is pedal feel, which has a nice bite and progression to it.

The Revuelto SV feels tangibly faster than the base model, but the real takeaway from our brief hot-lap session is how much crisper it feels than its lesser sibling. It’s as though any filters or layers between car and driver have been pared out, and the result is that your toes and fingertips feel hardwired to the Lambo.

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What do you get?

The standard Lamborghini Revuelto already comes comprehensively equipped, and the SV builds on this with lashings of carbon-fibre in the bodywork, as the roof, engine covers and front and rear bumpers are all fabricated from the rigid, lightweight material, helping compensate for some of the weight gain resulting from the Revuelto SV’s larger battery pack. 

Black accents, red highlights and SV logos on the flanks add to the bespoke touches.

Further optical differentiation – and functional benefits – are provided by the lovely centre-lock wheels, race-inspired rear wing, revised front bumper/spoiler and hardcore rear diffuser. These mods also enhance cooling and aero efficiency, so it’s not merely about aesthetics.

2027 Lamborghini Revuelto equipment highlights:

• Unicolor leather/Corsa-Tex seat trim
• Leather/Corsa-Tex dashboard trim
• Carbon-fibre instrument panel insert
• Simulated suede door panel inserts
• Corsa-Tex leather/simulated suede console insert
• Aluminium interior accents
• Lamborghini Sound System with 2 woofers on doors, 2 tweeters on dashboard
• 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen
• Integrated satellite navigation
• Bluetooth and connected services
• Wireless phone connectivity
• Mobile hotspot internet access
• USB and 12V outlets
• 2x LCD monitors
• Streaming audio
• Concealed antenna
• Real-time traffic display
• Dual-zone climate control
• Six-way adjustable comfort seats
• Manual tilt/telescoping steering column
• Sport leather-trimmed steering wheel
• Compass
• Valet function
• Auto-leveling LED low/high-beam headlights
• Daytime running lights and rear fog lights
• Remote keyless entry
• Kerb/courtesy lighting
• Illuminated entry and panic button
• Remote cargo bay and fuel filler releases
• Cruise control buttons on steering wheel
• Full floor console with storage
• Mini overhead console
• Front map lights
• Fade-to-off interior lighting
• Tyre mobility kit
• Cargo space lighting
• Power windows with one-touch up/down
• Power door locks with auto-lock function
• Redundant digital speedometer
• Trip computer
• Outside temp gauge
• Perimeter alarm
• Immobiliser
• Air filtration

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Is the Lamborghini Revuelto safe?

The Lamborghini Revuelto SV has not been crash-tested by independent auto safety organisations such as Euro NCAP or NHTSA. Even so, it comes loaded with an armoury of active and passive safety features.

Standard safety equipment includes:

• Electronic stability control (ESC)
• Driveline traction control
• Anti-lock braking system
• Dual-stage front and side airbags
• Twin front knee airbag
• Airbag occupancy sensor
• Emergency SOS call
• Active lane departure warning
• Driver monitoring alert
• Tyre-specific low-pressure warning
• Front and rear parking sensors
• Reversing camera

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How much does the Lamborghini Revuelto cost to run?

Lamborghini offers a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty for all of its models in Australia, plus five years of free servicing in the case of the Revuelto.

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CarExpert's Take on the Lamborghini Revuelto SV

We’ve come to expect something special from Lamborghini’s go-faster models. The SV and SVJ versions of the Aventador were memorable, as were the numerous high-performance variants derived from the Huracan – Performante, STO, Tecnica, and Sterrato.

Thankfully, the Reveulto SV doesn’t disappoint. Improving on the electrifying Revuelto might have seemed like a tall order, but the SV is proof that difficult doesn’t mean impossible. 

The Super Veloce fully lives up to its name as it’s faster, sharper and simply more rewarding to punt hard than the ‘regular’ Aventador. This new V12 spearhead seems destined to go down as a future classic.

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