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this is what replaces the Guyardo the best-selling Lamborghini ever and it replaces it with a major leap forward in technology and demeanor let's drive the 2015 Lamborghini Huracan and check the tap when Lamborghini set out to replace the Guyardo they wielded a lot of new and improved technology adaptive electronic steering magnetic fluid adaptive suspension blessedly now a dual clutch instead of single clutch automated gearbox an Audi Quattro related all-wheel drive system a dramatically new LCD instrument panel and a body with clean subtle aerodynamics not obnoxious cutouts or powered rear wings as Lamborghinis go do I actually find this vehicle understated and elegant notice there isn't one of those audacious wings powered or otherwise nothing they just did it all with body speaking of that body the old structure of this car is a composite of some carbon pieces some aluminum pieces a lot of sandwiches and blending of the two it's not a true carbon tub with aluminum subframe instead it's a glued and riveted sandwich of the two materials especially at the cowl and down the spine Lamborghini calls this a carbon hybrid blessedly conventional doors do you really need this and then you've got the glass cover on the engine which is beautiful and clean but no that's an option normally you'd have a busier set of louvers there that's the best $7000 you'll ever spend now inside the Huracan things are decidedly more modern than the Guyardo it replaced look at that instrument panel it's a 12 inch side to side all LCD driven by an NVIDIA Tegra processor you've also got another LCD over here that's a fixed set of engine gauges now back to the main one interesting behavior here you can have sort of a split screen where you have instrumentation on the left and you've got your infotainment interface on the right hold a button here on the wheel and then you go into a full screen of your Audi inspired MMI you'll recognise and have seen that before hold the button again and now you go to a full instrumentation layout hold another button and that can go between full attack and full speed Oh no other interface quite like this it's also nice when you go in Reverse you get your reverse camera right there in front you in fact everything's in front of you this is an interesting vision of moving things away from the glance away center head stack to right in front of the driver and of course related to all that stuff in the dash is a pretty familiar kind of last generation Audi MMI interface now onto the drive controls this vehicles not like any other in that respect either here on the wheel everything is going kind of motorcycle like notice there are no stalks around the column only a couple of properly mounted stock based shift paddles left is down shift right is up shift instead things that used to be on stalks are here here's my high beam switch here is my left right turn signal switch wipers are over here and then down here on the bottom here is where my drive personality controls are sport strata Corsa we'll talk more about those on the road back here on the back bone you've got a locked-down start/stop button that's just a great Hollywood theater there and of course what a supercar be without cool titles to play with and here's a rack of those for things like windows hazards and most importantly on this guy the optional nose lifter under glass is the heart of the Beast the 5.2 liter v10 naturally aspirated no turbos no supercharger they do it the old-fashioned way 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds that's what happens when you get 602 horse notably though only 413 pound-feet of torque this guys are ever not a puller now while this engine breathes conventionally it drinks via 2 technologies both port and direct injection something a number of automakers are doing more of lately to optimize fuel delivery across the entire rpm and load range 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual gearbox is very different than that Guyardo we had which had a single clutch automated manual and was on the bulky side this promises to be much more refined oh by the way if you care the mpg is 14 20 on this guy that's actually not bad the days of single-digit mpg supercars are just about over almost immediately I notice how this cars got a really nice transmission because it's a dual-clutch we don't have all that jerkiness of the single clutch automated manuals are known for instead the shifts are super smooth plenty quick of course it depends if you're in strata sport or Corsa when you move those drive mode zones wheel you affect a lot of things you're going to change your throttle mapping so you get more power sooner you change your steering ratio if you have the adaptive steering option you're going to change the way the adaptive suspension operates you're also going to change the way the instability control is going to dial in you're going to change the shift points and how aggressive and quick those happen it really transforms a lot of things about the car now this cars also got an interesting set of sensors the accelerometers and the gyros are three-dimensional so you've got X Y and C which Lamborghini says is really helping them get some real dimension and real world flavor into how they modify all of those drive systems you know my favorite compliment for any car it feels light tenha it feels like and what you feel like you feel best one of the things you're also hearing about this car is the exhaust that changes when you go into sport or Corsa they open up some baffles and you get this nice back crackle beautiful sound now there are some Lamborghini quarks that make this car that I feel you have to live with I don't quite fit I'm lean way back and my knees are all bunched up the other thing is when you get a windshield this rakish and cheeki you also end up with some great big a pillars that really get the way of tackling corners okay let's get you all budgeted to buy your Huracan two hundred forty-one thousand dollars is your entry point with destination now we got to add a handful of things to get it seen that style adaptive steering is 2400 the adaptive suspensions 3400 navigation is an awfully steep $3,200 rear cam you're gonna need it that includes backup sensors nearly 4,000 the nose lifter will save you twice its price the first time you find a curb that's sixty nine hundred dollars and the glass engine lid I love it seven thousand all inward about two sixty eight but who's counting this is a very liveable approachable car that is also extreme when you want it to be but not when you don't it's a very interesting story and I see it bubbling up all over the supercar market and perhaps nowhere expressed better than right here more cars driven CNET style standing by now at CNET on cars.com click on the road