Lambo to the limit(er): PH Blog
Does the Huracan's virtual rev counter prevent you from getting your full 610hp?
'Chickenarms' Trent about to hit the limiter
Now if I was particularly worried about what YouTube made of my driving I'd have not put the lap up but the rev limiter issue on the Huracan is an interesting one. On my first few laps I left the Anima switch that controls everything from throttle to dampers and gearbox to stability control in Strada and then Sport modes. In the manual setting I was surprised to find it upshifting automatically some fractions of a second before I was even reaching for the right-hand paddle. Which seemed unnecessarily cautious. So into Corsa mode and the promise of the full range of the rev counter.
Now, your full complement of 610hp - it's written on the side of the car - doesn't actually canter in until the engine's turning at a rowdy 8,250rpm. According to the rev counter the red line is at 8,500rpm. But it's proper peaky normally aspirated motor so no complaints there. Thing is, when you're chasing a man in an Aventador you need all the horsepower you can get but on several occasions I hit the rev limiter just before I was about to upshift. Wary of this I got more cautious about when I pulled the + paddle, to the point where when the 'needle' on the simulated analogue rev counter in the Huracan's fancy new TFT screen reached '8' I'd pull the paddle. Even that wasn't always quick enough to make the shift before the limiter.
610hp - but can you actually access it?
I was considering the latter when I read Travis Okulski's review on Jalopnik, in which he said "There is a software issue with the tach right now, in that it doesn't accurately read redline, so you hit the limiter a lot. They are working on fixing the software."
So I asked Lamborghini's PR to confirm or deny. We're still waiting on a reply and will update as soon as we have one.
All of which might come across as an overly defensive reaction to a bit of a bashing on YouTube. But given this dash display will be coming to the new TT and, no doubt, many other 'group' products if there's a glitch you'd have to hope it gets sorted quickly. OK, so a small lag in the rev counter probably won't be an issue for most TT owners. But if it denies Huracan drivers the full 610hp they've been promised - and makes them look like hamfisted idiots if they go hunting for it - Lamborghini may have cause to feel aggrieved that Audi didn't test this before 'gifting' the tech to its supercar subsidiary.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I clearly need to get down the gym.
Dan
[Sources: Jalopnik]
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
You sort of hint at that as an hypothesis in the headline, but not in the story.
Maybe because the software is not up to scratch !
What I am saying here is that when you add more and more levels of intervention you have to make sure you get them working well, or calibrated as is the in phrase.
The old C43 AMG with it's auto box just bounced off the limiter until you moved the gearshift up a gear. That's how it should be. But with paddles not gear knobs obviously.
"I am not sure, if thic Huracan is driven by a bad test driver or his manly looking aunt!"
"I can go faster with my fiat."
"Where the hell is your safety gear? You fking lunchbox squid."
A "lunchbox squid" ?
"I am not sure, if thic Huracan is driven by a bad test driver or his manly looking aunt!"
"I can go faster with my fiat."
"Where the hell is your safety gear? You fking lunchbox squid."
A "lunchbox squid" ?
1. My new Lamborghini seems to hit the rev limiter rather too easily when I am spanking it around a sunny race track.
2. My personal trainer took the week off so I have to workout alone
3. My wallet won't close because there's too much money in it
4. My Brie is too hard
5. My cleaner has taken the day off
6. My wife complains that her Jimmy Choo's keep getting stuck in the grooves of the deck on our yacht.
7. My wifes underwear model friend will only have a threesome when we stay at our beach house on the Cote D'Azur.
8. The alpacas keep escaping.
9. How do I spend this big wad of £50 notes before they cease being legal tender?
10. I have three different invitations to parties at the Monte Carlo GP and I don't know which one to accept.
And the First World Problems list is pure PH gold - top work!
Cheers,
Dan
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