Ever since Ferruccio Lamborghini founded his eponymous supercar brand to take the fight to Enzo Ferrari, the company has prided itself on being different. And apparently, that means it likes to announce its biggest achievements when it’s good and ready.
Lamborghini announced Wednesday its yet-to-be unveiled Huracan Performante set the new production car lap record at the Nurburgring — in October.
We can’t think of a reason why it waited until almost five months had passed to announce the feat, except perhaps it wanted to wait until the new year to rain on Porsche’s parade. The Huracan Performante lapped the Nordschleife in six minutes, 52.01 seconds, demolishing the previous record set by its fellow Volkswagen-owned rival in a 918 Spyder by five seconds, more or less.
No images have been released of the upcoming hardcore Huracan, but a video teasing its lap record shows a camouflaged test mule driving on “The Ring.”
Lamborghini is set to unveil the Huracan Performante at the Geneva International Motor Show on March 7 at 3:55 a.m. ET, and will live stream the presentation on its website.
