Lamborghini marked a sequence of milestones in 2022, reaching EUR 2.38 billion ($3.eight billion) in turnover for the primary time ever because it strikes to hybridise its whole mannequin vary by the top of 2024.
The corporate has revealed it delivered 9233 automobiles final yr, with most — 2721 — going to the US (up 10 per cent on 2021), 1018 going to China, Hong Kong and Macao (up 9 per cent), 808 going to Germany ( up 14 per cent), 650 going to the UK (up 15 per cent) and 546 going to Japan (up 22 per cent).
VFACTS reveals Australia acquired 176 — a 34.four per cent enhance on 2021, suggesting our love for luxurious supercars outpaces the remainder of the world.
“We’ve 188 (automobiles),” Lamborghini chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann tells a press briefing, explaining the discrepancy in the way in which orders and deliveries are counted at every finish.
“Australia is seeing a increase of Lamborghinis.”
By way of fashions, the Urus Tremendous SUV led the way in which with 5367 autos delivered worldwide, up 7 per cent on 2021, adopted by the Huracan with 3113 deliveries (up 20 per cent) and the Aventador, which reached the top of its manufacturing run in Italy in September 2022, with 753 deliveries.
For Mr Winkelmann it is a balancing act to fulfill demand from numerous markets, with a present wait checklist of 18 months throughout the mannequin portfolio — and, it seems, prospects are ready to bide their time as a result of, he explains, they know Lamborghini will all the time “exceed expectations”.
“We’re promoting goals and never mobility,” he says, shrugging off a suggestion {that a} potential purchaser would possibly merely have a change of coronary heart and snap up, dare-one-say, a Ferrari.
“Our enterprise continues to develop and we are able to proudly verify that we achieved actually outstanding targets as soon as once more in 2022.
“These figures are available in a vital yr for the corporate, which is marking its 60th anniversary and coming into the second section of the Direzione Cot Tauri (Lamborghini’s decarbonisation program) — an unparalleled funding plan that may information our progress, result in additional enhancements in our monetary efficiency and enhance the worth of our model and our firm.”
Australia is seeing a increase of Lamborghinis.
Lamborghini says its 25.9 per cent working margin in 2022, which interprets into an working revenue of EUR 614 million ($991 million), is taken into account a “best-in-class” outcome within the automotive luxurious market — and 56 per cent larger than its lead to 2021.
Aventador PHEV
Mr Winkelmann says Lamborghini is bounce beginning its hybridisation with the Aventador PHEV (plug-in hybrid), which has simply been revealed and can launch within the coming weeks because it embarks on a brand new section that may see the corporate’s first all-electric supercars in 2028 and 2029.
An Urus PHEV is subsequent on the checklist, adopted by a Huracan PHEV by the top of 2024.
Mr Winkelmann confirmed all electrified fashions can be PHEVs — not HEVs — as the corporate ended its run of naturally aspirated V12s in February 2022 with the Invencible coupe and the Autentica roadster — two distinctive one-off automobiles.
“We’ve three fashions and all three fashions can be electrified and hybridised,” he mentioned.
By all accounts the brand new Aventador PHEV will value greater than the outgoing one, priced from $904,419 plus on-roads.
It’s going to mark a brand new period for Lamborghini, which is investing EUR 2.5 billion ($four billion) by 2028 — its largest outlay ever, it says — within the transition.
Codenamed LB744, the Aventador PHEV hasn’t fairly shaken off its formidable ICE roots, combining a brand new naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 engine with three electrical motors, a 3.8kWh lithium-ion battery and a bespoke eight-speed double-clutch gearbox.
It has 13 drive modes, together with “zero-emission” 4WD, plus launch management.
Lamborghini says the engine is the lightest and strongest V12 it is ever made, alone producing 607kW at 9250rpm and 725Nm at 6750rpm.
When working with the electrical motors — there is a pair rated 110kW/350Nm every on the entrance axle supplying energy to the wheels and a 3rd 110kW/150Nm situated above the gearbox supplying energy to rear wheels, if wanted — it reaches a peak of 746kW.
Claimed gas consumption is 18.zero liters/100km, with no determine obtainable but for electrical vary, however given the battery capability, it is will not be a lot — although Lamborghini guarantees to disclose all on the finish of March, explaining if the lithium-ion battery that powers the electrical motors must be recharged and there are not any charging stations obtainable, the V12 intervenes to completely recharge it (recharge mode) in just some minutes, making it potential, for instance, to entry historic metropolis facilities in Europe with emission restrictions in electrical mode.
Lamborghini says the electrical motors enhance energy supply at low revs and may flip the LB744 right into a “purely electrical automobile”, decreasing general CO2 emissions by 30 per cent in comparison with its predecessor.
In one other first for Lamborghini, the LB744 has a brand new aeronautics-inspired chassis aptly referred to as the “monofuselage” that is 10 p.c lighter than the outgoing Aventador chassis, plus a monocoque engineered solely of multi-technology carbon fiber that includes a “cast composite” entrance construction product of heat-and-pressure-cured carbon fibers soaked in resin — all including as much as a entrance body that is 20 p.c lighter than its aluminum predecessor.
Lamborghini says torsional stiffness has additionally been improved as much as 25 p.c “guaranteeing best-in-class dynamic capabilities”.
