“This is also why we’re showing a concept now, because we have to start speaking about these things,” he said.
Winkelmann added that the concept of “emotion” has been at the heart of these discussions: “There is the emotion of the sound and the emotion of the performance. So there are two types of performance: one is the pure numbers – acceleration, top speed, lap time – and then there is the emotional side.
And the emotional side for Lamborghini is always huge.” Talking about the sound the Lanzador emits under acceleration, Winklemann said: “We are studying what we can do.
There are three ways: not to do anything – so just the sound of silence, and at least my feeling is that we are not going to do that, then a fake sound, or amplification of the sound that exists.”
Lamborghini remains tight-lipped on the precise technical make-up of the Lanzador and has only loosely hinted at its performance potential. Pressed for a range figure, Winkelmann said: “There are a lot of elements we have to study in the next couple of years to get the right balance between design, performance and range.
It’s a bit too early now to fix a number, but for sure 300 miles, I think, is around what we need to have when we come to 2028.” More important, he suggested, will be the dynamic character of the production-spec Lanzador, which will need to be an obvious differentiator compared with other electric sports cars.