2Jason Cammisa tests the Lamborghini Temerario and answers the question: will it be a massive success like the Gallardo and Huracán? Or a hard sell like the original Baby Lamborghinis, the Urraco, Silhouette, and Jalpa? We drive them, along with a Countach and a Revuelto, for added to help figure it out.
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There have been three distinct chapters in the history of the Baby Lamborghini, each defined by the engine.
Chapter 1: The Cross-plane-crank V-8
The Urraco appeared just before the V-12 Countach, as Lamborghini's attempt at a lower-price, higher-volume car to help the company make money. But it, together with its facelifted successors Silhouette and Jalpa, are widely regarded as major factors in the company's bankruptcy.
Chapter 2: The V-10
The Gallardo and Huracán, on the other hand, are a massive success story credited with turning Lamborghini into a profitable business for the first time in its financially troubled history.
Chapter 3: The hybrid, flat-plane-crank twin-turbo V-8
This new chapter opens with Temerario, and to help predict whether it'll be a failure, veteran automotive journalist Jason Cammisa examines what made Chapter 1 a failure but Chapter 2 such a success.
In this video, Cammisa comes up with a list of must-have Lamborghini traits that follow the acronym DA'PASTA, and evaluates whether the new, hybrid, torque-vectoring Temerario hits those targets. Spoiler alert — it doesn't look good for the new Baby Lambo.
Together with SCCA Hall-of-Fame race-car driver Randy Pobst, Cammisa drives cars from each chapter of Baby Lambo – a feast for your eyes and ears as you hear those glorious 7500-rpm V-8s and 8000-rpm V-10s push the Lambos to their limit around Thunderhill Raceway Park, Northern California's beautiful home for grassroots motorsports.
With scientific reasoning, a little spaghetti, and a sfogliatella mention, Jason comes to his verdict on the Temerario, explains what Lamborghini got very right, and what it got very wrong.
Spoiler alert: there is a lot of each.
As always, Cammisa strives for additional perspective and so he brought out two of the V12 "Big" Lambos — the mythical Countach and the new Revuelto — to shed light on the successes and failures of their Baby Lambo siblings.
And no ICONS episode would be complete without multiple drag races. In this episode, you'll see the Temerario battle the Revuelto through the 1/4 mile; you'll see the Temerario battle the Huracán, and you'll even see the Countach drag race against a Urraco P300.
Plus, a design comparison to Marcello Gandini's other mid-engine V-8-powered 4-seat wedge, the Ferrari 308 GT4 Dino, which is barely distinguishable from the original Baby Lamborghini.
As always, the multiple award-winning "Jason Cammisa on the ICONS" series combines top-notch journalism and big-picture perspective with the highest production value in the business, for a one-stop review that's Required Reading for every car enthusiast — but equally as entertaining for the casual watcher.
We you hope you enjoy this particular dish of Da'Pasta.
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Chapters in this video:
0:00 Lamborghini's "Reckless Disorder."
1:27 Drag Race: Revuelto vs Temerario
2:50 The Previous Baby Lambos
3:25 Title Sequence
4:33 Temerario Dynamic Review
7:12 Drive Modes: Real Torque Vectoring
9:05 The Best Sound in a Lambo (Sonus Faber)
11:00 Price Comparison to Revuelto & Economics of Baby Lambo
12:40 The High-Volume Lamborghini Urraco
14:37 The Ferrari Problem
15:55 The Countach Problem (w/ Drag Race)
18:46 The Definition of Lamborghini (DA PASTA)
20:19 The Lamborghini Silhouette and Jalpa
21:57 Baby Lambo V10: the Calá and Bankruptcy
23:10 The V-10 Gallardo
25:00 Huracan: More! More! More!
28:25 Handling Doesn't Matter
28:10 Drag Race: Temerario vs Huracán
29:21 The Corvette Problem (ZR1 and ZR1X)
30:17 The Temerario's Engine Problem
32:38 In Defense of Lamborghini
33:18 Jason's Proposed Solution: Noise Generator
35:31 The Revuelto Has DaPasta
36:55 Visit JasonSentMe.com (Credits)