Living With a Million-Dollar Lamborghini Revuelto Is Even Crazier Than I Thought

It was the sound of kids chatting and laughing that got me out of bed that morning. I’m used to that, though. After all, I live in a friendly, family neighborhood. Except, this time, the kids sounded closer, like they were hanging out on my front porch.

When I pulled the curtains, I was instantly reminded of the special press car I was tasked to review that week. The little rascals had gathered around my Grigio Hati (actually cement gray) Lamborghini Revuelto.

It’s the latest in a long line of V12-powered super bulls: Miura, Countach, Diablo, Murceliago, and Aventador. Like those icons, the Revuelto is the big-dog Lamborghini. The flagship. The one that spearheads the brand.

Evidently, those kids were aware. Or maybe it was the sheer presence of a Lambo supercar sitting in an area where Toyota RAV4s and Honda Odysseys usually dominate the landscape that got their pulses going. I mean, do you blame them? When I was 10, if someone on my street owned a Diablo, you can be damn sure I’d park my bicycle in front of that driveway and stare at the car all day long.

Except, this is 2025. Those kids, phone in hand, had already plastered the car all over social media. And there came the other side of the coin about owning these cars. Wherever you go with a Lamborghini, people will flock toward you. Follow you. Film and document you. They’ll invade your private space. And while the Revuelto itself is a lovely machine for reasons I shall explain, living with one is a handful I could do without.

Duality Never Before Seen in a Lambo

While the Revuelto respects the typical flagship Lamborghini lineage by being mid-engined and V12-powered, it’s also a plug-in hybrid.

Very much like a Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray or a second-generation Acura NSX, the hybrid system in the Revuelto acts more as a way to add performance rather than improve efficiency. Two electric motors were installed on the Revuelto’s front axle, while a third motor was squeezed between the 6.5L, naturally aspirated V12 and the 8-speed automatic transmission.

The result is an earth-shattering 1,001 horsepower and 1,044 pound-feet of torque. Actually, all of the Revuelto’s numbers are pretty mind-bending. Acceleration from 0 to 60 mph is claimed by the automaker at 2.2 seconds, but some owners have reportedly done better. Lamborghini also quotes a 217mph top speed.

Oh, and the car costs 1 million freaking dollars. At least, mine did due to all the added options on it. Some of those options can cost up to $30,000 apiece.

Everyday Supercar

But you can drive it in full electric mode! Up to 5 miles, Lamborghini says. That’s more than an E-Ray. It also gives the Revuelto a dual-natured personality that its predecessors only dreamt of having.

For instance, to make sure I wouldn’t get those kids running back out of their homes when taking off in the morning, I’d set the big Lambo to its Citta, full-electric stealth mode. Then I’d quietly crawl out of my neighborhood. I ended up doing this more often than I had planned.

As a matter of fact, the Revuelto’s standout feature isn’t that it’s fast, loud, and expensive. It’s actually its ability to be a fantastic daily driver. Lamborghini made sure to carefully address a set of complaints from Aventador owners in order to make the car more livable without it losing its rambunctious personality.

For example, the Revuelto’s door openings are wider than in an Aventador to ease ingress and egress. The damping of its adaptive suspension was carefully massaged to be easier to live with on poor road surfaces. There are also 13 drive modes to choose from, allowing you, the driver, to truly tailor the car’s driving dynamics to your mood, the weather, or the time of day.

“Wait, is that kid sitting inside the car?” I yelped after turning my back on it to chat with a friend. It didn’t take long for a small family to flock toward the beast to take a few pictures of it. Never leave a Lambo scissor door open, as, somehow, that seems to be seen as an invitation to climb aboard for some reason.

Perhaps where the Revuelto bothered me the most was that the moment I’d show up to a friend’s or a family member’s place with it. I’d instantly get the comment that they’d seen the car posted on social media already, either on those car spotting groups or on an acquaintance’s publication. 

I live in a rather small city of no more than 300,000. So, word goes around pretty quickly that a million-dollar Lamborghini is roaming the streets and who is driving it. It therefore didn’t take long for me to realize that I was being tracked by the internet hive mind.

It was also a stark reminder that any foolish behavior on my behalf could have potentially ended up being bad news. I suddenly became ultra-paranoid about the local police also knowing of the car’s existence.

And that was all a real shame considering I was at the helm of a machine that can easily take care of a Tesla Model S Plaid electric performance sedan in a drag race; a car that’ll reach aircraft-like velocities within seconds. The Revuelto was never meant for our world of laws and speed limits. 

The V12 Remains the Show Stopper

The best way to escape the clutches of urban chaos is to head out into the countryside, something I didn’t shy away from doing. In Corsa mode, the Revuelto’s most performance-minded setting, your only way to drive the car is by using a flappy-paddle manual transmission setup, courtesy of two massive, carbon-fiber paddles installed onto the steering column, not on the steering wheel.

Drop down a few gears, and the V12 doesn’t forget to emit loud gasps of induction as it sucks in air, prepared to pounce under the command of your right foot. To improve its civility and to, again, appease past complaints, Lamborghini gave the V12 exhaust valves that open at around 4,000 rpm. So, you need to rev the big girl a bit more than usual to get any decibels flying out of that massive afterburner Lamborghini calls an exhaust.

But once the V12 comes alive, my gosh, it’s an intoxicating experience. The V12 burbles, groans, burps, farts, and sings until it hits the rev limiter at 9,500 rpm. There’s just so much drama. Redline also arrives with a furious sense of urgency that no other car can replicate, so fast that you don’t have time to see how fast you’re going.

Life With a Revuelto

And there’s the Revuelto’s trap. It will get you into license-losing territory at the blink of an eye. It’s a dangerous thing, this one.

For you, I mean. Because while it can storm through the countryside faster than a Cessna, the Revuelto will always feel glued to the road, safe, and as casual and laid-back as a Honda Accord cruising on the highway.

After a few runs on my favorite backroads, I parked the car in a nice, calm area by a lake where I often go to unwind. As I walked away from it, admiring the Revuelto’s striking presence and fighter jet references in its styling, I whipped out my phone to see if I had missed any calls or texts. 

There was one unread message: “Hey, do you still have the Revuelto? I’d like to show it to my dad!” Here we go again.