Ferrari 488 Pista vs Lamborghini Huracan Performante: The Numbers

Lighter, faster, cooler versions of already cool, already quick supercars. So which one wins the Top Trumps numbers game?

Apr 18, 2018 at 4:45am ET

By: Victoria Parrott

The Ferrari 488 GTB and Lamborghini Huracan are the stuff of every school kid's dreams; full-on, fiery supercars with high-brow Italian breeding and enough accelerative force to blow your Ray-Ban's off without even breaking a sweat. The really, really rich and important people, who properly love cars, going fast and having the best of the best, want the lightweight, tuned-up, all-guns-blazing version.

Welcome to the elite of the elite. The Ferrari 488 Pista and the Lamborghini Huracan Performante.

Safe to say the Pista is pretty quick:

The cars

Oh, they're so good. You can read all about the Ferrari 488 Pista in our first drive, but to take something as vibrant and alive as the Ferrari 488 GTB, and make it drastically more powerful, lighter and even more banzai is a bit mental and yet brilliant. The Huracan Performante - check out our review here - delivers a slightly different character of super-special supercar, with its ecstatically wonderful naturally-aspirated V10 engine and rear-biased four-wheel drive.

Scroll down for the full galleries of the Ferrari prototype in action, and the finished thing at Geneva, as well as the Lambo in a variety of spectacular colors. And of course, have a look at how the numbers stack up below to see which one wins at the numbers game.

The numbers

	Ferrari 488 Pista	Lamborghini Huracan Performante
Price	N/A	$274,390
Engine	3.9-liter, V8 biturbo gasoline	5.2-liter, V10 naturally aspirated
Transmission	7-speed dual-clutch auto	7-speed dual-clutch auto
Drivetrain	Rear-wheel drive	Four-wheel drive
Power	711 hp at 8,000 rpm	630 hp at 8,000 rpm
Torque	568 lb-ft (770 Nm) at 3,000 rpm	443 lb-ft (600 Nm) at 6,500 rpm
Power per ton	513 hp	459 hp
0-62 mph (0-100 kph)	2.85 sec	2.9 sec
0-124 mph (0-200 kph)	7.6 sec	8.9 sec
Top speed	211 mph (340 kph)	201 mph (325 kph)
Seats	2	2
Length	4605 mm	4506 mm
Width (excl. mirrors)	1975 mm	1924 mm
Height	1206 mm	1165 mm
Wheelbase	2650mm	2620mm
Weight (dry)	1,385 kg (3,053 lbs)	1,382 kg (3,047 lbs)

Which one wins?

The nod has to go to the Ferrari. It's more expensive and has two fewer driven wheels, but it's more powerful and check out the 0-124 mph time... Both the Lambo and Ferrari are up to 62 mph in much the same 2.9 sec time, but the 488 bullies its way to 124 mph a whacking 1.3 sec faster, which in supercar terms is a lot. Those turbos, which you'll note serve up vastly more torque from much lower revs, would be the reason why, as much as the extra hp.

And yet, a nod to the Huracan here. Because while the Ferrari trounces it in terms of performance numbers, the Huracan's V10 is a thing of ungodly brilliance, and our money would quite probably go to the Lambo for that reason alone. Call us dinosaurs if you will, but there just aren't enough naturally aspirated engines in the world any more, and you can check out Motor1.com UK's video of the Audi R8 RWS to get a really good earful of why we reckon this V10 makes us quite so dewey-eyed and nostalgic for non-turbo engines.

But yes, the Ferrari with its brutal V8 takes the win here with some ease. The next question is will the Pista beat the Performante's ludicrous 'Ring time? We'd bet that it will, but we'll have to wait and see.