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Portuguese professional soccer player and current member of Manchester City Ruben Dias is admired by many, so Lamborghini is capitalizing on that fact. The Italian exotic car brand is showing off the UK Premier League star’s new Revuelto supercar, drawing a line between its performance on the road and Dias’ on the pitch.
Jeremy Clarkson isn’t quite as happy with his Revuelto.
In a press release about the soccer player’s vehicle choice, Lamborghini says the Revuelto has the same style as Dias’ play: definitive, decisive, powerful, nimble, responsive, and exciting. The whole point is to get fans of professional soccer, especially of the Premier League and Dias, all excited to go buy the hybrid supercar.
Will it work? We don’t know. After all, the Revuelto caters to a very specific type of person, thanks in no small part to its starting price of just over $600,000.
For that kind of cash, most would demand the best there is. The Revuelto does a good job of delivering with a mid-mounted 6.5-liter V12 pushing 814-horsepower. When that combines with the three electric motors, two of them driving the front wheels, the net result is monstrous 1,001-hp for the most power out of a production Lamborghini.
Not only is the supercar powerful, it’s quick with a 0 to 60 time of 2.2 seconds. It can go 0 to 150 mph in just 9.9 seconds.
What’s more, the thing has rear steering and torque vectoring control for better handling at higher speeds. In other words, those aggressive body lines are more than backed up by solid all-around performance.
“Every journey has a beginning, every leader has a story,” says Dias in press release accompanied by some splashy photos. “Nothing is given, everything is earned, something my family and I have always believed in. But you can dream big, dream high, and I built myself to write my own legacy. Like Ferruccio Lamborghini who didn’t stop when someone told him to. For me Lamborghini was always a dream car, something to aspire to and set as an attainable goal. To me, I look at it and it represents power, that inner strength. It has the qualities that I like to deliver on the pitch where every second counts, every decision must be precise.”
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