Three Very Different High-Performance Cars Making Their Debut Over The Summer

Over the summer, the stream of automotive news barely seemed to slow down, with plenty of very cool and impressive cars by multiple brands being launched. Just weeks and sometimes even days apart we got to see new cars from Tuthill, Rimac, Aston Martin and more. We couldn’t explore each one in detail, so we decided it could be fun to pick three mighty impressive ones and line them up regardless of their obvious differences. So with that in mind, here’s a quick rundown of the BMW M5 Touring, the Lamborghini Temerario and the Nilu 27.

power, power and more power

It must be said that with so many new cars being presented, it’s hard to ignore the fact each one seems to be about one specific performance figure; horsepower. about every other week or so, a new car pops up, from an established manufacturer or some shed in the middle of nowhere and everything in between, that wants to outdo all the others in the “Powerrrrrr!!!” department. Following the mighty Bugatti Tourbillon and its 1,800bhp hybrid powertrain, we were treated to the 823bhp Aston Martin Vanquish, the 720bhp (from a V6, mind you!) Maserati MCXtrema the 2,078bhp Rimac Nevera R and others. Heck, even the Land Rover Defender seems to be in need of boatloads of power for some reason, as a developmental Defender Octa has been spotted making the rounds on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. That’s said to have even more power than the already very potent Defender V8 (525bhp). With so much emphasis on power numbers, it raises the question; will it ever be enough? Apparently not…

BMW M5 Touring

What’s cooler than a very fast saloon? A very fast estate, surely! Exactly the idea behind the latest performance machine by BMW, the G90 M5 Touring. Clients have been asking for another high-performance estate car by the Bavarian manufacturer for years. BMW built a wagon or estate version of its very first M5, the E28 generation but has skipped a few generations since then. The last M5 Touring to be listed in the catalogues was the V10-powered E61 generation built between 2005 and 2010. Now though, prayers have been answered as the latest M5 Touring promises blistering speeds courtesy of an electrically assisted 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8.

BMW claims the M5 Touring will put down 717 horsepower and 1,000Nm of torque on the road, propelling the car to 100kph in about 3.5 seconds and on to a limited top speed of 250kph (155mph). This can be raised to 305kph (189mph) if you know what box to tick on the options list. Best of all, the M5 Touring comes with space for four adults as well as room for half your inventory. With the rear seats up, you have 500 litres of space to stuff, which can be extended to a massive 1,630 litres when you fold down said seats!

Naturally, such performance comes with added luxury on the inside and aero bits on the outside. The interior is riddled with a long list of amenities to make your drive as smooth, safe and enjoyable as possible. On the outside, a quite intimidating front bumper and grille combination is installed, the wheel arches are widened, and there’s a huge diffuser at the back. Does it come with any drawbacks? Well, yes, as the new M5 Touring weighs a monstrous 2.5 tons and has a starting price of well over EUR 100,000. Nevertheless, I bet people will love to drop off the kids at school and blast down to the local Ikea for some new furniture!

Lamborghini Temerario

It’s not every day a completely new Lamborghini is presented, and a little over a year after the brand’s flagship Revuelto took over from the Aventador, the “baby-lambo” is being replaced as well. Out goes the Huracán, which took over from the long-running bread-and-butter Gallardo, and in comes the Temerario. Sadly, that also means we have to say farewell to the V10 engine that powered both the Gallardo and Huracán and get used to the idea of the smaller Lamborghini supercar being fitted with a V8.

Don’t worry though, Lamborghini has not dialled back the performance meter, as the new Temerario packs a 907bhp twin-turbo flat-plane-crank V8 with a bit of hybrid assistance thrown into the mix. With a redline of 10,000rpm, it should sound amazing, even if it’s ‘missing’ two cylinders! Something to look forward to and take your mind off the banshee-like howl of the V10 that is no more. Performance-wise, Lamborghini states the Temerario completes the zero-to-100kph sprint in 2.7 seconds and blasts on to a top speed of 211mph, or about 340kph. Sounds plenty fast, right?

But a Lamborghini should not only be blisteringly quick, and tingle your senses when at full tilt, it should also look downright amazing sitting still. In that regard, the Temerario doesn’t disappoint either. It takes styling clues from the Revuelto, which is understandable of course, but presents it in a more compact package. A sharp nose section, with modern headlight units and a big front splitter, doors that lead to massive air intakes on the side and on top, and a semi-exposed engine leading onto a rear spoiler and tail section with more slats and cuts than a Freddy Krueger victim. That about sums it up! From front to back, a recessed section in the frunk (front trunk), roof and engine cover lead air over the rear to push it down in the road.

Lamborghini also claimed the Temerario is more comfortable than the outgoing Huracan, which seems… odd, to say about your new hypercar. We’ll take their word for it nonetheless. In the meantime, we’re searching for a (legal!) way to raise the USD 433,000 this apparently will cost. And that’s before speccing it with things like special paint, additional carbon trim or a fire extinguisher!

Nilu 27

The finale to this episode of The Petrolhead Corner is something completely unexpected, penned by the former Head of Design of Koenigsegg and Head of Exterior Design for Bugatti; Sasha Selipanov. With 20+ experience in the industry, Sasha has been dreaming of his own car for years, and it has now come to fruition. The Nilu, the debut car of his newly founded company Nilu27 is his personal vision of the purest analogue hypercar imaginable. Building on such a resumé leads to the inevitable comparison, but it remains to be seen how this would stack up against the brutes from Molsheim and Ängelholm.

Regardless, it looks amazing, doesn’t it? I mean, slap it on a poster and you have an instant bedroom-decoration for youngsters who are into their cars! The sleek exterior has tons of retro influences with a swooping front leading into a very curvaceous profile and ending in what’s best described as ‘the most amazing use of negative space’ in ages. Just look at it for a few seconds, honestly! The engine seems to be semi-floating between the rear wheels and is fitted with an exposed 12-into-1 exhaust manifold that snakes its way over the engine to end underneath the rear wing. But the coolest little detail in the design? The Naca-style duct in the side of the full carbon fibre body!

The glass cabin offers an almost unobstructed 180-degree view when behind the wheel. You enter through a pair of Gullwing doors and sit down in a fixed seat, with the pedals and steering wheel likely to be adjustable if needed. A gated manual transmission lets you work your way through all seven speeds while hanging on for dear life! It looks and sounds like a brilliant mix of vintage Le Mans racers, classic manual cars like the Miura, and the insane attention to detail we know and love from the likes of Koenigsegg and Pagani.

And hang on you shall, thanks to the incredible normally aspirated 1,000bhp V12 that only needs to push along 1,200 kilos. The bespoke engine has a redline of 12,000rpm and is intended to send shivers down your spine every time you fire it up. No performance figures are mentioned as of yet, but with such a power-to-weight ratio, it should be a properly fast machine! Nilu is building 15 track-only launch cars before shifting to 54 road-going cars, all at an undisclosed price.

Editorial Note: All images portrayed in this article are sourced from and used with permission of Press.BMWGroup.com, Media.Lamborghini.com or Nilu27.com.