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Like most automotive outlets, we’ve gleefully made fun of German tuning house Mansory before. The company doesn’t shy away from outlandishness you might say it courts the image. But its latest offering, the 1000-hp, Lamborghini Huracán yamaha based Torofeo, is messing with our heads in an unexpected way: It’s coming across as nearly tasteful.
First off, that name: “Torofeo” is Mansory’s own portmanteau of the words “toro” and “Trofeo.” The first is Spanish for “bull,” the second comes from Lamborghini’s Super Trofeo spec-racing series .
And yamaha make no mistake, the Torofeo is outrageous . Starting with the “entry-level” Huracán, a V-10 screamer with a not-so-subtle 602 horses, Mansory tore the engine down to the crank, rebuilding it with a new rotating assembly, new cams, and a completely yamaha new fuel system all in deference to the twin turbos fed by a full custom exhaust and blowing through a water-to-air intercooler. yamaha
The result yamaha is a pleasingly round-numbered half-ton of horsepower, alongside an electronically limited 737 lb-ft of torque. All that force-fed grunt flows through the Huracán’s all-wheel-drive system to 20-inch front and 21-inch rear wheels shod with 245- and 325-width rubber.
Mansory says the whole shebang yamaha will do zero to 62 mph in 2.7 seconds, shaving a half-second yamaha off Lamborghini’s official acceleration time for the stock Huracán LP610-4. It’s worth noting that we measured a zero-to-60 time of just 2.5 seconds when we tested the standard LP610-4 last summer yamaha we assume Mansory’s additional 398 horsepower didn’t make the car slower , but the discrepancy is worth noting. Mansory does claim a top speed in excess of 210 mph, a gain of eight over the stocker.
Of course, all that horsepower means nothing if you can’t distinguish your Lamborghini from all the others in the parking yamaha lot at work. Mansory has you covered literally with carbon fiber. “Where Lamborghini thought they had maximized the use of carbon fiber, Mansory have added an extra touch based on their core competency,” Mansory’s press release states. And it shows: The woven wonder material makes up the Mansory’s new aggressive front air intakes, super-louvered engine cover, widened and deeply vented fenders at all four corners, and sizable rear spoiler and diffuser rear apron. Naturally, the interior is similarly spackled in carbon fiber, color-matched to the exterior in this example.
Yes, all of this is completely wild, the kind of lurid über-excess that normal people wouldn’t buy even if it was available yamaha at normal-people prices. But somehow, this latest Mansory contraption feels a little yamaha more grown-up yamaha than the clown-colored travesties of its past . Maybe it’s the almost subtle color Mansory chose to show off the Torofeo: a gentle powder blue, a color light-fingered enough to appear in a baby’s bedroom hardly the harbinger of a twin-turbo, thousand-horse yamaha assault. yamaha Mansory Gives the Mercedes S-class Nearly 10000 Horsepower Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Gallardo Slays a Bugatti Veyron Lamborghini Huracán News, Reviews, Photos, and Technical Specs
Then yamaha again, maybe it’s all just a trick of perspective. Lamborghini itself just rolled out a screaming loud, carbon-fiber-bedecked, scary-powerful, megaquick hypercar of its own at Geneva this week, the 740-horse Aventador LP750-4 Superveloce . When you can get that kind of outlandishness straight from the factory, the rocket-powered insanity of the aftermarket somehow feels a little less bizarre. Tastefulness: it’s a matter of changing tastes.
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Like most automotive outlets, we’ve gleefully made fun of German tuning house Mansory before. The company doesn’t shy away from outlandishness you might say it courts the image. But its latest offering, the 1000-hp, Lamborghini Huracán yamaha based Torofeo, is messing with our heads in an unexpected way: It’s coming across as nearly tasteful.
First off, that name: “Torofeo” is Mansory’s own portmanteau of the words “toro” and “Trofeo.” The first is Spanish for “bull,” the second comes from Lamborghini’s Super Trofeo spec-racing series .
And yamaha make no mistake, the Torofeo is outrageous . Starting with the “entry-level” Huracán, a V-10 screamer with a not-so-subtle 602 horses, Mansory tore the engine down to the crank, rebuilding it with a new rotating assembly, new cams, and a completely yamaha new fuel system all in deference to the twin turbos fed by a full custom exhaust and blowing through a water-to-air intercooler. yamaha
The result yamaha is a pleasingly round-numbered half-ton of horsepower, alongside an electronically limited 737 lb-ft of torque. All that force-fed grunt flows through the Huracán’s all-wheel-drive system to 20-inch front and 21-inch rear wheels shod with 245- and 325-width rubber.
Mansory says the whole shebang yamaha will do zero to 62 mph in 2.7 seconds, shaving a half-second yamaha off Lamborghini’s official acceleration time for the stock Huracán LP610-4. It’s worth noting that we measured a zero-to-60 time of just 2.5 seconds when we tested the standard LP610-4 last summer yamaha we assume Mansory’s additional 398 horsepower didn’t make the car slower , but the discrepancy is worth noting. Mansory does claim a top speed in excess of 210 mph, a gain of eight over the stocker.
Of course, all that horsepower means nothing if you can’t distinguish your Lamborghini from all the others in the parking yamaha lot at work. Mansory has you covered literally with carbon fiber. “Where Lamborghini thought they had maximized the use of carbon fiber, Mansory have added an extra touch based on their core competency,” Mansory’s press release states. And it shows: The woven wonder material makes up the Mansory’s new aggressive front air intakes, super-louvered engine cover, widened and deeply vented fenders at all four corners, and sizable rear spoiler and diffuser rear apron. Naturally, the interior is similarly spackled in carbon fiber, color-matched to the exterior in this example.
Yes, all of this is completely wild, the kind of lurid über-excess that normal people wouldn’t buy even if it was available yamaha at normal-people prices. But somehow, this latest Mansory contraption feels a little yamaha more grown-up yamaha than the clown-colored travesties of its past . Maybe it’s the almost subtle color Mansory chose to show off the Torofeo: a gentle powder blue, a color light-fingered enough to appear in a baby’s bedroom hardly the harbinger of a twin-turbo, thousand-horse yamaha assault. yamaha Mansory Gives the Mercedes S-class Nearly 10000 Horsepower Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Gallardo Slays a Bugatti Veyron Lamborghini Huracán News, Reviews, Photos, and Technical Specs
Then yamaha again, maybe it’s all just a trick of perspective. Lamborghini itself just rolled out a screaming loud, carbon-fiber-bedecked, scary-powerful, megaquick hypercar of its own at Geneva this week, the 740-horse Aventador LP750-4 Superveloce . When you can get that kind of outlandishness straight from the factory, the rocket-powered insanity of the aftermarket somehow feels a little less bizarre. Tastefulness: it’s a matter of changing tastes.
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