The Lamborghini Centenario is the Lamborghini that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 770 PS from 6.5 . It was built from 2016 to 2017, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. The shape is credited to Filippo Perini (coupé) / Mitja Borkert (roadster).
How it came about
The Lamborghini Centenario (Italian: [tʃenteˈnaːrjo], Spanish: [θenteˈnaɾjo]) is a limited production sports car based on the Lamborghini Aventador which was unveiled at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show to commemorate the 100th birthday of the company's founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini.
The hardware
The engine is 6.5 the output is 770 PS. On the scales it comes to 1520 kg. That is roughly 507 horsepower per tonne: hypercar territory, where the limiting factor is the tyre, not the engine. Drive goes through a 7-speed ISR automated manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Lamborghini line-up the Lamborghini Centenario has a clear place: the factory was Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ferrari 488, the Aston Martin Valkyrie, the McLaren 570S. Its Lamborghini stablemates include the Lamborghini Calà and the Lamborghini Marco Polo.