Lamborghini has a habit of saving its wildest ideas for its rarest cars, and the Fenomeno Roadster is the most extreme expression of that instinct yet. Revealed at the second edition of the Lamborghini Arena, the open-top Few-Off takes the already uncompromising Fenomeno Coupe (first shown at Monterey Car Week) and removes the roof without removing the menace. The result, Sant'Agata claims, is the most powerful open-top car the brand has ever produced.
That headline number is 1,065 horsepower, drawn from the same High Performance Electrified Vehicle architecture that underpins the Revuelto, but pushed harder. At its heart is a naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 spinning to 9,250 rpm, here tuned to 824 hp and 535 lb-ft on its own. Three electric motors, fed by a 7.0-kWh lithium-ion pack, fill the gaps, drive all four wheels, and lift the combined figure into supercar territory. The performance reads exactly as you would hope: 0–100 km/h in 2.4 seconds, 0–200 km/h in 6.8 seconds, and a top speed beyond 340 km/h.
Open Air, Without Compromise
The engineering challenge of any open-top hypercar is keeping the aerodynamics honest once the structure overhead is gone. Lamborghini says the Roadster matches the downforce of the Coupe through a reworked air-management strategy, including a redesigned windscreen with an integrated carbon spoiler that smooths flow over the cockpit. The active rear wing and that enormous diffuser carry over, while carbon structures conceal the anti-roll bars. The only meaningful concession is roughly 10 km/h of top speed versus the closed car, a trade buyers of a car like this will gladly make for the sky above their heads.
Underpinning it all is the carbon-fibre monofuselage chassis with a forged-composite front structure, the lightweight backbone shared across Lamborghini's modern V12 flagships. Carbon-ceramic brakes and bespoke Bridgestone Potenza Sport tyres, developed specifically for the Fenomeno programme, wrap 21-inch front and 22-inch rear wheels. For the purists, the manually adjustable, race-derived dampers are a quiet but telling detail: this is a Few-Off meant to be driven hard, not merely admired.
A Tribute Wearing Its History
The launch car arrives in Blu Cepheus with Rosso Mars accents, a deliberate nod to the 1968 Miura Roadster, the open-top show car that, decades ago, hinted at what Lamborghini could do without a roof. It is a fitting reference point. Where the Miura Roadster was a one-off statement of intent, the Fenomeno Roadster is the production-limited culmination of that idea, executed with the full weight of the company's hybrid V12 expertise.
Sold Before It Was Seen
As with every Lamborghini Few-Off, exclusivity is the point. Production is capped at just 15 examples worldwide, and, true to form, every car was spoken for before the covers came off. Lamborghini has not officially disclosed pricing, but with the Fenomeno Coupe having commanded several million and the Revuelto starting north of $600,000, the Roadster's tag sits comfortably in seven-figure territory. Reports place it well above the Coupe.
For a company navigating the transition from pure combustion to electrification, the Fenomeno Roadster is a statement of confidence. It proves the naturally aspirated V12 still has a future, not in spite of the electric motors but alongside them, and that the most thrilling way to experience that engine is with nothing between you and the noise. Fifteen owners will get to find out. The rest of us will have to settle for the soundtrack.