Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica Closes a Chapter in 631-HP Style

• The Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica will be the last series-produced Lamborghini powered by a V10 engine.

• The 5.2-liter V10 produces 631 hp, shuttled through the rear wheels.

• The Technica is positioned between existing Huracan EVO and track-focussed Huracan STO.

The combustion engine’s obituary will be written in many chapters, but here is one of the first parts. Because the Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica seems set to be the last series-produced new car to be launched with a V10 engine. Lambo admits one more limited-run Huracan is coming before the long-lived supercar retires next year, that one rumored to be a version of the Sterrato off-road concept shown in 2019. But the Tecnica will be the last one that affluent buyers can walk into a showroom and buy off the floor.

Even if you will never be in the market for a Lamborghini Huracan—or the closely related but less expensive Audi R8, which is also close to retirement—this is a departure that needs to be mourned. Because this supremely charismatic naturally aspirated V10 has long been one of the world’s great engines, more so as competitors have reduced engine capacities and cylinder counts and moved towards forced induction.

Positioned between the existing Huracan EVO and the track-focused STO that sits at the top of the range, the Tecnica uses the most powerful 631-hp version of the 5.2-liter 10-pot. That might seem on the low side by the increasingly ridiculous standards of this segment; the turbocharged Ferrari F8 Tributo and McLaren 765 LT make 710 hp and 755 hp respectively. But nothing, with the possible exception of another Lamborghini, can beat the Tecnica as an aural experience.

This is a point the Lambo makes just as well when being driven gently as it does when being pushed hard. There is certainly savage joy in taking it all the way to the 8500-rpm redline, although opportunities to do so will always be limited anywhere the streets are policed: The Lamborghini can get from 0-illegal anywhere in the United States in something under six seconds. Fortunately there is an almost equal level of delight much further down the rev range, with muscular part-throttle harmonics and a chuckling over-run when the gas is suddenly lifted—all of which are being produced without any form of digital augmentation. The Tecnica has an audio system, but the most entertaining thing to listen to will always be its powerplant.