Manual Huracan
Lane Frisch
The sports cars of old were almost exclusively sold with manual transmissions. Even when automatic transmissions became available, the manual was for the enthusiasts, but the modern car landscape is very different. Performance cars like the Lamborghini Huracan are no longer available with a manual transmission. How can that be? Allow us to answer that by going over the transmission options for the Lamborghini Huracan.
The Huracan actually only has one transmission option. It comes standard with a dual-clutch gearbox called the Lamborghini Doppia Frizione. This 7-speed transmission is what you will find in all variants of the current Huracan including rear-wheel drive options and the Performante model.
To understand why Lamborghini utilizes the dual-clutch design, first we should explain how this particular type of transmission works. A dual-clutch transmission, or DCT, was designed to nearly eliminate shift lag.
In a manual transmission vehicle, you must engage the clutch, shift gears, and disengage the clutch. All of that takes time. Time that your car could be using to put power to its wheels. Traditional automatic transmissions can operate faster, but they still suffer from the same basic problem.
A DCT nearly eliminates the problem by essentially having two gearboxes in one. In a DCT, you have two clutches each tied to two different sets of gears. Typically, one clutch is tied to the even numbered gears and the other tied to the odd numbered gears.
This allows your transmission to have two different gears engaged to the input shaft or shafts at the same time. For example, when accelerating from a stop, your DCT engages the first gear and engages the appropriate clutch. Second gear is also engaged, but its clutch remains disengaged. Then, when the car is ready to up shift, it simply has to disengage the first clutch and engage the second. This means that shifts can take place in mere fractions of a second.
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Lamborghini itself once explored selling both the Aventador and Huracan with available manual transmissions but decided against it claiming it would be unable to justify the costs. If the Lamborghini Huracan had launched a couple of years earlier than it did, a manual would have been more conceivable as the Audi R8 was being sold with a stick shift. Unfortunately, by the time the Huracan did hit the market, the six-speed once used by the R8 was no longer being produced.
European Auto Group should need no introduction at this point. The small shop in San Antonio, Texas has created some of the world's most unique aftermarket transmission swaps and conversions for vehicles that were never offered with a manual transmission. Some of EAG's highlights include the world's only gated manual Ferrari 430 Scuderia, and the world's first 2020 Toyota Supra with a manual transmission.
EAG has also announced plans to build an AMG GT with a manual using the seven-speed transmission from an Aston Martin Vantage. Now, the company has teased its latest project that is currently in development: the world's first gated manual Lamborghini Huracan.
The Gallardo was the last Lamborghini model to be sold from the factory with a gated manual box. By the time the Huracan was introduced in 2014, nearly all supercars had switched to dual-clutch transmission because they are faster on a racetrack and more usable for everyday driving. But EAG still sees the value in a manual transmission, especially a gated box.
While the finished product will undoubtedly be slower than a dual-clutch Huracan, it will almost certainly be a livelier driving experience. The Huracan's 5.2-liter V10 engine produces 610 horsepower in stock form, but the car EAG is working in is far from stock. As you can see from the company's teaser video, it shoots fire from the exhaust.
The car was formerly owned by popular YouTuber named Peter Saddington, who has since sold his car. EAG will perform the swap using the six-speed gated manual transmission used on the last-generation Audi R8, which links up to the Huracan's 5.2-liter V10. Should the swap turn out well, we expect EAG to offer it for future customers as well.
EAG is currently in the process of expanding in Florida, as its San Antonio location simply isn't equipped to handle the demand for manual swaps from the enthusiast community. Automakers may continue to say there is no demand for the manual transmission but EAG has proven that there is a willingness out there from people who still respect the art of shifting their own gears.
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