Rear-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 revealed

Lamborghini has revealed the rear-wheel-drive version of its Huracán supercar. The Huracán LP580-2 gets styling tweaks to set it apart from its AWD sibling.

In terms of styling, the RWD Huracán gets restyled bumpers front and back with air intakes designed to increase downforce over the front axle. The car also gets new 19-inch alloy wheels to set it apart from the AWD Huracán. Furthermore, the wheels come wrapped in bespoke Pirelli P Zero tyres developed specially for this version of the car.

Powering the new car is the same 5.2-litre V10, but it now develops a more modest 571bhp instead of 602bhp. Torque output is rated at 53.1kgm. Unlike its predecessor, the rear-wheel-drive Gallardo, the Huracán gets a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox instead of the manual unit. Lamborghini has also tweaked the ECU of the car, so it develops about 75 per cent of its torque around 1,000rpm.

The Huracán LP580-2 at 1,389kg is lighter than the AWD model by 33kg. This is distributed 40/60 per cent front/rear. In terms of performance, the new car is 0.2 seconds slower than the Huracán LP610-4 in the sprint from 0-100kph, with a time of 3.4 seconds.

The Huracán LP580-2 is likely to spawn a Spyder variant in the immediate future and may also give rise to a SV model with the more potent 5.2-litre V10 from the AWD model.