Audi Pulls Out All The Stops With The Super-Sleek Nuvolari. A limited production hybrid hypercar with Lambo tech and 1,001 horsepower

 

The Audi Nuvolari is built upon the platform of the Lamborghini Temerario.

 Lamborghini is part of the Volkswagen Audi Gruppe, and in fact the Audi ownership proved vital in sustaining, and probably saving, Lamborghini as a carmaker at some point. What’s important to note is that this is Audi’s first hybrid supercar, pairing a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 engine with a three-motor hybrid system carried over from the Italian raging bull. But, interestingly enough, Audi has fiddled with both the combustion engine and the EV system, pushing the combined output to 1,001 horsepower over the already quite ludicrous 920bhp of the Temerario.

The Nuvolari’s top speed is said to be in excess of 350kph, with the zero-to-100kph sprint being done and dusted in 2.6 seconds, and for what it’s worth, passing the 200kph mark after just 6.8 seconds. 

To put it in some sort of perspective, the Nuvolari takes less time to hit double the speed of a lot of the road cars today. And of course, Audi being Audi after all, power is fed to the road through all four wheels

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (1892-1953) 

Nuvolari, like his peers, raced pretty much anything, anytime, anywhere. 

He won the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio multiple times, and the 1933 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to name just a few of his race victories. 

He walked away from competitive racing due to a split fuel tank incident during the 1938 Pau Grand Prix, stating the Alfa Romeo was just too dangerous and badly built. 

Taking a break from racing, he was contacted by Auto Union to compete in the 1938 Swiss Grand Prix. He raced for the team for three years, achieving three Grands Prix wins, cementing Auto Union as one of the best manufacturers of the pre-war era, but also himself as one of the best of his generation. 

In honour of his achievements, his name was given to the Audi Nuvolari Quattro concept car in 2003, and now the all-new limited production car.

Only 499 Nuvolari’s will be made, at a price that’s said to be close to EUR 600,000 excluding taxes and before options, if there are any. Oh, and it’s already hinted at by Audi’s CEO Gernot Döllner that we will very likely see a Nuvolari Roadster in the future.

For more information, please visit Audi.com.