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The new Lamborghini V12 engine packs 700bhp - 30bhp up from the LP670-SV -and 500lb ft of torque from its 6.5-litre capacity. It's been designed and hand built entirely in-house by Lamborghini (we suspect with a glaring VW-shaped eye cast over it) and weighs 235kg. It also revs to 8,250rpm, which for a V12, is a lot.
The 12-pot will be mated to a new single-clutch automated manual box, lighter than equivalent DSGs and engineered to give an 'emotional' gearbox feel. What this means remains anyone's guess, although we imagine 'angry', 'tense' and 'pre-menstrual' were probably rejected at the brain-storming stage. The gearbox does promise 50 per cent quicker shift times than with a dual-clutch box, and is nicknamed ISR - Independent Shifting Rod.
