Lamborghini Tests a Revuelto Facelift on the Aventador Clock

A camouflaged Lamborghini Revuelto was photographed on public roads in late September 2026, already wearing a new nose. The mule is a volume car, not the Super Veloce Lamborghini showed on 14 August, and the calendar matches the Aventador’s old two-step life.

Photographer Hancock’s frames are the first clear look at a Revuelto facelift prototype. Y-shaped daytime running lights sit as stickers, the headlights read closer to the Fenomeno, and the rear diffuser has been rebuilt. Lamborghini has not named a reveal date.

The Front Looks a Lot Like a Fenomeno

The current Revuelto launched on 29 March 2023 as a 1,015 CV plug-in hybrid flagship, with a new 6.5-litre V12 rated at 825 PS, three electric motors and a 3.8 kWh battery in the centre tunnel. Combined output is 1,001 hp. Lamborghini quotes 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and a top speed of more than 350 km/h, or 217 mph. Full production began in July 2023.

That car’s signature is the Y-shaped running lights that follow the contours of the nose. On the test mule those lamps look like vinyl, not working lights, which is a classic trick when a studio is still locking a new graphic. The headlamps that remain visible through the wrap sit closer to the Fenomeno, the 29-unit few-off shown in August 2025, than to the production Revuelto. A larger central intake dominates the bumper, another Fenomeno cue.

It is not a copy. The mule’s hood lacks the limited car’s big vents, and the roof line is unchanged. The car is still a coupe. Anyone hoping the first open Revuelto would appear under this wrap will have to wait.

WHAT THE CAMOUFLAGE STILL SHOWS

• Front lamps: Y-shaped running lights appear as stickers rather than working units, and the headlamp graphic that is visible sits closer to the Fenomeno than to the current car.
• Centre intake: A larger, more rectangular opening takes over the bumper, with reshaped side inlets and new horizontal strakes.
• Unchanged body: The hood has none of the Fenomeno’s prominent vents, and the roof shape matches the production Revuelto.
• Hybrid hardware: A high-voltage warning sticker on the flank indicates the plug-in system stays, rather than a return to a pure petrol V12.

Those four details are enough to place the car. This is a running, road-legal mule for the volume flagship, wearing a new face while it keeps the same carbon tub, scissor doors and hybrid layout.

What Changed Behind the Rear Wheels?

The biggest change sits at the back. Hancock’s photos show a fully redesigned diffuser with new strakes and larger vents under the tail lamps. The lamps themselves look carried over. The rear wing has been revised, and a third brake light appears to be built into it, a small but complete change from the current deck.

The prototype does not wear the tall fixed wing that defines the Revuelto SV. That matters, because the SV is the car Lamborghini has been shouting about since Monterey. A mule without that wing is not a leftover SV test car that someone forgot to unwrap. It is a different product, aimed at the car customers can still order as a regular Revuelto.

Some of the wrap also hides bumper sensors that look better integrated than on the current nose. That is the kind of tidy work that shows up on a mid-cycle car, when the factory finally has time to clean the details it rushed at launch. The high-voltage sticker is the mechanical tell. Whatever else Sant’Agata changes, this remains a plug-in hybrid.

Foschini Already Named the Aventador Script

After the SV’s unveiling, Federico Foschini, Lamborghini’s chief marketing and sales officer, was asked about an SVJ. He did not close the door forever. He did close it for this half of the cycle, and he used the Aventador as the map.

When it comes to the SVJ… so SVJ was done in the second part of the life cycle of the Aventador. We are still in the first life cycle here. With the Aventador, when we did in the first generation, the first half of the life cycle we did the sport derivative with an SV, and after we had the SVJ in the second part.

Let’s see if we are going to have the same kind of history. But for sure, in this half of the life cycle, we are not having on top on this SV also an SVJ. So in this life cycle, this is the sporty derivative of the first generation of the Revuelto.

Federico Foschini, Lamborghini chief marketing and sales officer

That is the whole plot. The Aventador LP700-4 arrived on 28 February 2011 with 700 CV and a 2.9-second 0-100 km/h claim. The Super Veloce followed in 2015 with 750 CV, limited to 600 coupés. The Aventador S replaced the base car on 19 December 2016 with 740 CV, a 40 PS gain, four-wheel steering and a new nose. The SVJ arrived in August 2018 with 770 CV and a 6:44.97 Nürburgring lap, in a run of 900 coupés. Production ended in September 2022.

The Revuelto is now three years and six months past its debut, and the SV is already on stage. The mule in Hancock’s photos is doing the S’s job: refresh the car people actually buy, after the halo has had its moment, and before anyone talks about a Jota.

Limited Cars Keep Teaching the Flagship How to Look

Lamborghini has a second habit that sits beside the SV calendar. Few-off cars try new lights, intakes and aero on a tiny run, then those cues show up on the volume V12. The Reventon’s hard angles fed the original Aventador. The Sian FKP 37, the first V12 hybrid with a supercapacitor, shared its daytime running lights with the Revuelto that followed. The Fenomeno is the latest teacher.

Lamborghini presented the car on 15 August 2025 as a 29-car Fenomeno design manifesto for the 20th year of Centro Stile. System output is 1,080 CV, from an 835 CV V12 plus 245 CV from three electric motors. The company quotes 0-100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 0-200 km/h in 6.7 seconds and more than 350 km/h. Pricing sat around €3 million before tax, and the run was sold before the show. The official line on the new daytime running lights is that they honour the horns on the bull badge.

Those are the lights the mule is trying on. The production Revuelto will not get the Fenomeno’s vented hood or long-tail rear. It will get a version of that graphic and a wider mouth, which is how Sant’Agata has always moved design from the few-off shop onto the car that pays the bills.

TWO V12 FLAGSHIP CYCLES

The Fenomeno sits beside that table rather than inside it. At 1,080 CV it still outguns the SV by 15 CV, which is the point of a 29-car special. The volume mule does not need to catch that number. It needs to look current once the SV has had its photographs.

The Aventador S Added 40 PS

If the pattern holds for hardware as well as timing, the facelift is more than lamps. The Aventador S was not a sticker job. Four-wheel steering arrived, the aero was rewritten, and the V12 gained 40 PS, taking the base car from 700 CV to 740 CV. That still left it 10 CV under the SV, which is how Lamborghini keeps a halo looking like a halo after the everyday car gets a bump.

A similar step on the Revuelto would live in the hybrid pack, not in a new crankcase. The SV already showed the trick. Its V12 stays in the same 814 hp tune as the standard car. The extra 50 CV, which Lamborghini also states as 49 hp, comes from a 7.3 kWh battery, almost double the 3.8 kWh pack, so the three motors can hold peak output for longer. A mid-cycle Revuelto that borrowed even part of that battery would pick up power and electric consistency without touching the 9,500 rpm petrol engine.

That is not confirmed. Guessing a neat 1,025 hp figure from a wrapped bumper is gossip. The high-voltage sticker only proves the architecture remains. The Aventador history says a mid-cycle V12 at Sant’Agata rarely stays at its launch output for the second half of its life.

A 1,963-Car Halo Arrives Before the Facelift

The SV is the problem the mule creates. On 14 August 2026 at The Quail, during Monterey Car Week, Lamborghini staged the 1,065 CV Super Veloce debut and called it the most powerful and fastest-accelerating production car it has built in Sant’Agata. Combined torque is 1,425 Nm. The company quotes 0-100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 0-200 km/h in 6.7 seconds and a top speed above 345 km/h, or 214 mph, which is a shade below the standard car’s 217 mph claim. Downforce is 80 percent higher than the Revuelto and 10 percent higher than the Aventador SVJ. Production is capped at 1,963 cars, the year the firm was founded.

Introducing the new Lamborghini Revuelto SV, the latest expression of the Super Veloce legacy.

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— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini) August 14, 2026

That crown is designed to look permanent and is built to be temporary. The Aventador SV enjoyed about a year as the wild one before the S made the base car faster and tidier, and another three years before the SVJ took the lap times. The Revuelto SV has to live next to a facelift that is already running, 46 days after its own unveiling. Collectors who stretched for one of the 1,963 will want the halo to stay visually apart. A volume car that borrows Fenomeno lights and a bigger diffuser starts to crowd that gap.

THE POWER LADDER RIGHT NOW

• Revuelto: 1,015 CV and a 3.8 kWh pack, 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds.
• Revuelto SV: 1,065 CV and a 7.3 kWh pack, 0-100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 1,963 units.
• Fenomeno: 1,080 CV from 835 CV of V12 plus 245 CV of motors, 29 units.
• Facelift mule: output unset; the wrap and the sticker say hybrid, not a new engine.

The SV’s extra tenth to 100 km/h is a small number on paper. The 80 percent downforce jump is the real product. If the facelift only chases a few CV, the SV still has a job. If the facelift also takes a bigger battery and a meaner floor, the halo has to win on wing, tyres and track modes, not on a press-release headline.

The Roadster Is Still Missing as the Facelift Rolls

The Aventador grew a roadster in 2013, two years after the coupe, and only then the SV and the S. The Revuelto has skipped that order. There is still no factory open-top, Temerario Spyder mules have been seen, and the V12 flagship is already being facelifted as a closed car. That is the break in the pattern, and it is the one owners will feel. Anyone who sat out the coupe for a roadster now watches the hard-top get new lights first.

The volume car is not a rare toy. In 2025 Lamborghini sold 10,747 vehicles, a fifth straight annual record, with revenue of €3.20 billion, up 3.3 percent. The Urus accounted for 7,808 of those sales. The Revuelto took 2,096. The Huracan, on its way out for the Temerario, added 843. Two thousand hybrid V12s a year is enough traffic that a mid-cycle nose is a commercial job, not a salon exercise.

Calling the Revuelto young only works if you start the clock at the SV. The coupe has been in customers’ hands since late 2023, which is still a faster turn toward a refresh than the Aventador ever ran. The S needed five years and nine months after launch. This mule is in public at three years and six months.

Lamborghini has not said when the wrap comes off. The SV is only just on the circuit, so a public facelift in 2027 is the window the calendar implies, and an SVJ remains a second-half question Foschini would not answer. Until then the car on the road is a camouflaged Revuelto with Fenomeno lights, a new diffuser and a high-voltage sticker, doing the second act the Aventador already performed.