Lamborghini has built another birthday present for itself, and naturally it’s completely wild. The new Fenomeno Roadster arrives as Sant’Agata celebrates 63 years in business, and because subtlety has never exactly been part of the company handbook, they’ve responded with a roofless, 1,065-horsepower V12 hybrid that looks like it escaped from a science-fiction storyboard after too much espresso.
Only 15 will exist. Which means most people reading this will never even hear one in person, let alone drive one. Shame, really, because a naturally aspirated Lamborghini V12 at full noise with no roof above your head sounds like one of the last genuinely absurd pleasures left in the supercar world.
The coupe came first. You’ll remember the Fenomeno from last summer — all sharp edges and aero drama, sold out before half the internet realised it existed. Thirty cars. Gone instantly. The Roadster cuts that number in half because apparently exclusivity now comes measured in single digits and private WhatsApp groups.
And yes, Lamborghini has gone fully committed with the roof situation. There isn’t one. No folding hardtop, no removable panel tucked awkwardly into the front trunk while the owner pretends not to panic about scratching exposed carbon fibre. The cabin simply stays open to the sky all the time, which gives the whole thing a slightly more feral appearance.
The proportions have changed because of it. The side glass looks chopped and compressed, almost like someone lowered the roofline in Photoshop and forgot to finish the job. Then there’s the little carbon spoiler sitting at the top of the windscreen, which feels wonderfully unnecessary in the best possible Lamborghini tradition.
Behind the seats sit two large aerodynamic humps that double as rollover structures. Every open-top hypercar seems to need them these days, but here they actually work visually. From some angles the Fenomeno Roadster resembles a modern interpretation of a speedster prototype from the late ’60s. From others, it looks like a stealth bomber that developed a gym addiction.
Lamborghini says it reworked the upper surfaces and aero package so the Roadster delivers the same downforce and cooling performance as the coupe. I believe them mostly because modern hypercars are designed by people who probably lose sleep over airflow around side mirrors. Weight gain sits at only a few kilograms too, which honestly feels like engineering witchcraft when you consider how much structure usually disappears with the roof.
The launch car wears Blu Cepheus paint with Rosso Mars accents and exposed carbon everywhere your eyes land. Predictably dramatic. Predictably effective. Lamborghini interiors can occasionally drift into nightclub territory after midnight, but this one sounds restrained enough to avoid looking like a gaming chair sponsored by an energy drink company.
And then there’s the powertrain. Good grief.
The naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 already makes 824 horsepower on its own. That figure used to belong exclusively to race cars and mildly terrifying prototypes. Lamborghini then bolts on three electric motors because apparently someone in Sant’Agata looked at 824 hp and thought, “Needs another thousand Newton metres and a battery.”
So you get two motors at the front axle and another integrated into the eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Combined output lands at 1,065 hp, which pushes the Roadster beyond the Revuelto and into the upper reaches of “completely unnecessary but deeply entertaining.”
Performance numbers barely change from the coupe. Zero to 100 km/h takes 2.4 seconds. Two hundred arrives in 6.8. Top speed sits north of 340 km/h. At those speeds, having no roof probably transforms every facial muscle into abstract art.
Still, the numbers almost feel secondary here. Hypercars passed the point of usable performance years ago. Nobody genuinely needs more acceleration than this. The appeal comes from the theatre — the sensation of a massive naturally aspirated V12 screaming inches behind your shoulders while electric motors quietly fill every microscopic gap in the torque curve.
That matters.
Because the industry keeps drifting toward silence, synthetic noises, turbocharged downsizing and digital experiences that feel engineered by compliance departments. Lamborghini somehow continues to build cars that behave like emotional outbursts. Expensive ones, admittedly.
The Fenomeno Roadster now joins the Reventon, Veneno, Centenario and Sián Roadsters in Lamborghini’s long tradition of making ultra-limited collector specials for clients who probably own islands or small airlines. Pricing remains officially undisclosed, which usually translates to “if you have to ask, your accountant will start sweating.”
As for what comes next, a Revuelto Roadster feels inevitable at this point. Lamborghini is already deep into development of the Temerario Spyder too, which swaps the V12 madness for a plug-in hybrid V8 and a retractable hardtop. More sensible, perhaps. Slightly more usable.
