Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster: 1,065 HP, 15 Units, and Zero Roof
Lamborghini has never been shy about building low-volume special editions that push the boundaries of what a supercar can look and feel like. From the Reventón to the Countach revival, the Sant’Agata automaker has a long tradition of pairing outrageous design with powertrains that match. The Fenomeno Roadster is the latest in that lineage, an open-top version of the Fenomeno Coupe revealed last year, and only 15 of them will ever exist.
The visual drama picks up right where the coupe left off. Piercing headlights peer out from beneath large black panels on the hood that double as air duct housings, and the front bumper is loaded with vents, spoilers, and vanes that mean business. The classic Lamborghini wedge shape runs the length of the car, deep air intakes carved into the rear fenders add muscle to the profile, and the taillights cut a “Y” shape on either side of a centrally mounted exhaust that looks as aggressive as it sounds. Without the roof, the whole thing looks even more exposed and raw, which is exactly the point.
Removing the roof from a car with this much downforce is not a simple engineering exercise, and Lamborghini clearly did its homework. The Roadster gets a reworked aerodynamic package designed to match the coupe’s downforce figures despite the significant chunk of bodywork that is no longer there. The louvers over the engine bay have been redesigned, and a new spoiler mounted on the windshield redirects airflow over the open cockpit and feeds it directly into those vents. The result is a car that breathes differently but hits the same performance targets.
Under all that carbon bodywork sits a hybrid V-12 powertrain borrowed from the Revuelto, but tuned further for the Fenomeno. Total output is 1,065 horsepower, stepping up from the Revuelto’s 1,001 hp thanks in part to a larger 7-kWh battery that pushes the three electric motors to a combined 241 hp. Those motors work alongside a 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V-12 to launch the Roadster to 62 mph in a claimed 2.4 seconds. If that is not enough, 200 mph arrives in just 6.8 seconds, and the top speed exceeds 211 mph. It is the kind of performance that makes the numbers almost feel fictional until you are sitting in it.
The chassis and rolling stock are equally serious. Manually adjustable racing dampers handle the suspension duties, carbon-ceramic brakes do the stopping, and the Fenomeno Roadster rides on a staggered set of bespoke Bridgestone Potenza Sport tires — 265/30s on 21-inch fronts and 355/25s on 22-inch rears. Lamborghini will also offer a semi-slick Bridgestone option focused on track use that remains street legal, which says a lot about the kind of driving this car was built for.
Lamborghini has not announced an official price for the Fenomeno Roadster, but context makes the math pretty easy to work out. The Revuelto starts at $608,358, the Fenomeno is a bespoke limited run of just 15 cars with significant engineering changes and exotic materials throughout, and demand from Lamborghini’s global collector network will be intense. A seven-figure price tag is a safe assumption, and for the 15 people lucky enough to get one, it is hard to argue it is not worth every cent.
