Lamborghini Huracán Performante vs Evo vs STO vs Tecnica: What Each Trim Actually Changes

What the name says	Figure	What kind of number that is
The number	PS, not hp	Metric horsepower. 610 PS is 602 hp; 640 PS is 631 hp. Same engine, two rulers.
The digit after the dash	2 or 4	Driven wheels. A 2 is rear-drive, lighter, and the enthusiast’s pick.
Family spread	580–640 PS	Ten per cent across eight road cars, 2014–2024. Nobody bought these on power.
ALA	750% more downforce	Lamborghini’s claim for the Performante. A lap-time device, useless at 40 mph.
In the garage	the Evo	The rear-drive Evo and the all-wheel-drive Evo Spyder: the road-car trims.
Rate	$1,799/day, all three	Same $2,000 refundable deposit on each.

The trim built for a Saturday that includes a restaurant Huracán Evo RWD, Yellow LP 610-2: 610 PS through the rear wheels, the standard suspension, and the noise everybody actually books a Huracán for. The badge on its rear wing says exactly that. Dates and rate →

LP, the number, and the digit after the dash

The Evos on Robertson Boulevard are the trims below built for the road.

Three parts, each carrying information. LP is longitudinale posteriore: the engine sits lengthways, behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, an abbreviation Lamborghini has used since the Countach that describes the layout rather than the model. The number is metric horsepower, PS, about 1.4 per cent smaller than the American unit, which is why our own car pages say 610 and an American road test says 602 for the same engine. The digit after the dash is how many wheels are driven: a 4 is all-wheel drive, a 2 is rear-drive, which on a mid-engined car is the lighter, more playful choice because the front driveshafts and the centre differential leave with it.

So LP 610-2 EVO RWD, the full name of the yellow coupé here, reads: longitudinal mid engine, 610 PS, rear-wheel drive, facelift generation, rear-drive variant. Lamborghini names cars the way an engineer fills in a form. The bull the word Huracán itself refers to is a different story.

The whole Huracán family in one table

Ten years, one engine, eight distinct road cars. Power is given both ways because both are correct.

Trim	Designation	Power	Wheels	Built	Here
Huracán	LP 610-4	602 hp / 610 PS	4	2014–19	No
Huracán RWD	LP 580-2	572 hp / 580 PS	2	2016–19	No
Performante	LP 640-4	631 hp / 640 PS	4	2017–19	No
Evo	LP 640-4 EVO	631 hp / 640 PS	4	2019–24	Yes, open
Evo RWD	LP 610-2 EVO RWD	602 hp / 610 PS	2	2020–24	Yes — two
STO	LP 640-2 STO	631 hp / 640 PS	2	2021–24	No
Tecnica	LP 640-2 Tecnica	631 hp / 640 PS	2	2022–24	No
Sterrato	LP 610-4 Sterrato	602 hp / 610 PS	4	2023–24	No

Notice the spread. Between the weakest and the strongest car in that table there are 59 horsepower, about ten per cent, across a line that spans a road car, a track weapon and a gravel special. Lamborghini did not sell these on power. It sold them on aerodynamics, weight and which end of the car does the work, and the Huracán’s full model lineage is the clearest record of that now that the car is out of production and the factory pages have gone.

What ALA is, and why it does nothing on Mulholland

ALA stands for Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva, and it is the single piece of engineering that separates the Performante and the STO from every other Huracán. Conventional active aero moves a wing with hydraulics, which is heavy and slow. ALA does not move the wing: it opens and closes flaps inside the front splitter and inside the hollow rear wing with electric motors, redirecting air through internal channels instead of steering bodywork into it.

The system is around 80 per cent lighter than a hydraulic equivalent and the flaps move in about half a second, fast enough to change the balance mid-corner rather than mid-straight. Its cleverest trick is aero vectoring: the two halves of the rear wing are fed independently, so in a corner the inside rear wheel can be given more downforce than the outside one.

Lamborghini’s claim for the whole system is 750 per cent more downforce than a standard Huracán, which sounds like marketing and is a real, measured, entirely useless number on a canyon road. Downforce is a function of speed squared. At 40 mph, seven times more of almost nothing is still almost nothing. ALA earns its money above about 100 mph on a circuit; it is the correct reason to want a Performante and a poor reason to want one for a weekend in Los Angeles.

What each suffix changes

Evo, 2019. The mid-life update to the whole line: reshaped nose and tail, the Performante’s 640 PS engine in the all-wheel-drive car, and a predictive chassis brain called LDVI that reads steering, throttle and body movement to guess what you are about to do. The Evo RWD followed a year later with 610 PS, rear drive and a further reshaped front splitter. Performante, 2017. 640 PS, ALA, and 40 kg removed with forged composite bodywork, a Lamborghini process that chops carbon fibre into short strands and presses it rather than laying up sheets; 0–100 km/h in 2.9 seconds, and the car that made the Huracán famous with people who time laps.

STO, 2021. Super Trofeo Omologato: Lamborghini’s own one-make race car made road legal. Rear drive, rear-wheel steering, a body more than 75 per cent carbon fibre, a roof snorkel joined to the rear wing by a shark fin, and three modes named STO, Trofeo and Pioggia — road, dry track, rain.

Tecnica, 2022. The STO’s engine in a body 6.1 cm longer, with 35 per cent more downforce and 20 per cent less drag than the Evo RWD, no snorkel and no harnesses, built because the STO is a difficult car to live with and the Evo RWD is not. Sterrato, 2023. Raised by nearly two inches, track widened, arch flares with brake-cooling intakes, a roof rack, extra lights, and a top speed limited to 260 km/h by its all-terrain tyres. The slowest Huracán ever made and the one people will still be talking about in twenty years.

The three on Robertson, named properly

The yellow coupé is a Huracán Evo RWD, LP 610-2, and the badge on its rear wing says so: 610 PS, rear-wheel drive, 0–60 mph in 3.3 seconds. The green car is the same trim with the roof taken out of it, an Evo RWD Spyder, 3.5 seconds to 60, the loss explained by roughly 100 kg of chassis reinforcement that goes in when a roof comes out.

The matte black car is the odd one and the more interesting one: an Evo Spyder driving all four wheels, which in Lamborghini’s grammar makes it the 640-4 — the Performante’s output through four wheels — and the quickest of the three off the line, because traction is worth more than 100 kg costs. If you want the fastest open Huracán on this street, it is the one that drives its front wheels.

Same rate on all three, which takes money out of the decision entirely and leaves the roof and the colour, both of which are settled in coupé or Spider. Everything on that shelf that is not a Huracán is on the sports car rental in Los Angeles page. The tier above this one is set out in where supercar, hypercar and megacar stop.

What it costs, and how it reaches you

All three take the same rate and the same $2,000 refundable deposit, held on the primary driver’s card rather than charged and back 5–7 business days after the car returns. The Protection plan is priced per day off the deposit band, and every Huracán sits in the top one; your own qualifying policy works instead. The calendars and live rates are on the Lamborghini page, and what the rest of the bill is made of has its own page.

Collection from our lot on Robertson Boulevard is free and delivery to the partner hotels in Beverly Hills is complimentary. Airport delivery is $150 both ways standard, where the car waits in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it, or $300 both ways VIP, where it is at the terminal when you walk out — half that for one direction. On a Huracán the VIP tier earns its money: the shuttle is half an hour with luggage, and this is a car with one shallow boot. Under twenty-five there is a young-driver fee per day, the higher of the two we charge. Mileage, fuel and the rest are in the terms.