It was supposed to be the steal of the century. A British car enthusiast YouTuber got his hands on a wrecked Lamborghini Revuelto, estimated at over €700,000 new, for the "paltry" sum of around €260,000. A broken price (like the car), barely half its original value. But behind this seemingly good deal... lay an insolvent electronic mess.
A crashed and disfigured supercar
When Mat Armstrong, known for his vehicle restoration videos, discovered this Revuelto, it was unrecognizable. The hood ripped off, the front frame deformed, the cooling and oil circuits ripped open... It was a battlefield. Yet, determined and passionate, he embarked on a titanic challenge: to breathe new life into this Lamborghini with a V12 hybrid engine.
A new challenge for Mat: repairing a supercar with a hybrid engine
The problem? It was her first hybrid. And the Revuelto, with its complex system combining a V12 engine and three electric motors, isn't exactly the easiest car to repair. Mat had to relearn everything: replace the front subframe, suspensions, cooling system, oil pipes, radiators... The titanic task mobilized his entire team for weeks on end.
Little by little, the supercar began to take shape again. The bodywork regained its aggressive appearance. All the components seemed to be back in place. Hope was reborn.
Finally... impossible to start
But just as the long-awaited first start-up was about to take place, tragedy struck: nothing happened. Total silence. No engine roar, no dashboard lights.
After hours of tests and checks, a worrying lead emerged: a safety device linked to the high-voltage system had been triggered following the accident, cutting off any possibility of restart. And then everything gets blurry. The error cannot be corrected, even with professional help. The Revuelto's electronic systems are so complex that without direct help from Lamborghini, it would be impossible to remove the blockage.
An unsaleable Lamborghini?
Today, the supercar is unusable. Despite hundreds of hours of work and thousands of euros invested, Mat ends up with a Revuelto... that doesn't run. Worse still, there's no way of knowing whether it will ever start up again. For such a rare and sophisticated model, the mere fact of having been in an accident and electronically blocked is enough to make it unmarketable.
One thing's for sure: Mat Armstrong isn't about to forget that Lamborghini Revuelto. And what looked like the deal of the century may well turn out to be one of his biggest mistakes.
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