The Lamborghini Revuelto SV Just Set a Lap Record With a Number Built to Last

The Lamborghini Revuelto SV just became the fastest production car ever recorded at the Hockenheimring, and the number behind its production run says as much as the lap time does: just 1,963 units, a direct tribute to the year Automobili Lamborghini was founded. It’s the most powerful and fastest production Lamborghini ever built in Sant’Agata Bolognese, and the latest entry in a Super Veloce lineage that stretches back 55 years to the original Miura SV.

The Powertrain Behind the Revuelto SV’s Record Lap

At the center of the Revuelto SV is a 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 producing 825 CV at 9,250 rpm, working alongside three electric motors — two front axial-flux units and a radial-flux motor mounted above the transmission — fed by a 7.3 kWh lithium-ion battery. Combined output reaches 1,065 CV, a 50 CV jump over the standard Revuelto, with a best-in-class 1,425 Nm of system torque.

That translates to 0-100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 0-200 km/h in 6.7 seconds, and a top speed past 345 km/h — numbers that produced factory driver Marco Mapelli’s 1:41.6 lap at Hockenheimring. Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann called the result “Lamborghini DNA in its purest form,” framing the SV as a car “conceived to push beyond the limits.”

New Technology: Pilota Mode and the Monolocker Wheel System

The Revuelto SV introduces Pilota, Lamborghini’s first dedicated driving mode of its kind, activated by a rotary knob on the steering wheel and built around a five-stage traction control system pulled directly from the brand’s GT3 racing program.

It joins new CCM-R Plus carbon-ceramic brakes — F1-inspired, rated for 200-0 km/h stops in 110 meters — and GT3-derived adjustable dampers that Lamborghini says deliver 17% more agility and 10% more lateral grip than the standard Revuelto.

The wheels carry their own first: a redesigned central-locking system called the Monolocker, making its debut here as the first series-production Lamborghini to use single-nut locking wheels at all. Revuelto Product Line Director Alessandro Farmeschi described the goal as maximizing “confidence, consistency and driving engagement in every condition, whether on road or on track.”

The Lamborghini Revuelto SV’s Road Ahead

Design Director Mitja Borkert framed the SV as “the next natural evolution of Lamborghini’s V12 HPEV philosophy,” and the numbers back that up — 80% more downforce than the standard Revuelto, 10% more than the outgoing Aventador SVJ, and 60% better downforce-to-drag efficiency. That’s a meaningful jump for a platform barely two years into its production life, and it raises a real question about where Lamborghini takes the hybrid V12 architecture from here.

The Revuelto SV isn’t just the fastest V12 hybrid Lamborghini has built — it’s also, per the brand’s own 63rd-anniversary framing, a car deliberately numbered to outlast the moment it was born into.

With other limited-run Lamborghinis already testing how far a “few-off” production strategy can go, the real question the Revuelto SV leaves open isn’t whether Lamborghini can keep pushing V12 hybrid performance further — it’s whether the next SV, whenever it arrives, will still be built around an engine this many enthusiasts assumed wouldn’t survive the shift to electrification at all.

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