Lamborghini couldn’t leave well enough alone after unleashing the insane Reventón. Always eager to squeeze just one more model from every car in its lineup, the boys in Sant’Agata chopped the top off the super-Lambo to create a mighty mean roadster.
The Italian automaker is pretty much the poster child for never leaving well enough alone. It always has been known for its excesses. Excessive styling, excessive horsepower, excessive prices. It defines the term.
And the latest definition of excess? The Lamborghini Reventón Roadster.
Let’s just get the numbers out of the way right now, shall we? That’s all anyone really cares about when talking about an Italian V-12 supercar. The 6.5 liter, 12-cylinder mill puts out 662 horsepower. The car does 0 to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds. It tops out at 205 mph. But the most important number is 20. As in that’s precisely how many Lamborghini will build.
“The Reventón is the most extreme car in the history of the brand,” says Stephan Winkelmann, president and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. “The new Roadster adds an extra emotional component to our combined technological expertise — it unites superior performance with the sensual fascination of open-top driving.”
Like the Reventón Coupé, you can have your Reventón Roadster in any color you like so long as it’s Reventón Grey, which Lambo claims is a slightly different shade of gray than Reventón Coupé. It still looks like primer gray to us, but as long-time hot rodders, we’re used to it.
Naturally the wheels are extra-special, too. Painted in a two-tone matte-and-glossy paint scheme, each spoke features a small crescent-shaped wing of matte-finished carbon fiber. Lamborghini says it provides “an unusual visual impact, [and] also a turbine effect that further improves cooling of the mighty ceramic brake discs.” Mighty? Well, we our pleased with ourselves, aren’t we?
All this stylish power hits the road through an all-wheel drive system and a running-gear layout Lamborghini says is “from motorsport;” which is funny, because Lamborghini doesn’t do much racing. (That’s one reason the guys in Maranello snicker when someone mentions Lamborghini.) The engine is mounted longitudinally amidships, with the transmission ahead and beneath the center tunnel, meaning 58 percent of the weight sits on the rear axle. Luckily (for your insurance carrier), there’s a viscous-traction, permanent all-wheel-drive that puts all 662 ponies to the ground through all four wheels. Yes, the torque split is variable and automatic, meaning you can more or less point the car, mash the pedal and hang on. Just make sure you aim carefully.
Price? About 12 times what your kidney would fetch on the open market. The Reventón Roadster will go for 1.1 million Euros before taxes (about $1.6 million at today’s exchange rate). Deliveries are being made now, so call your black-market “doctor” for an appointment.
Photos: Lamborghini
The Italian automaker is pretty much the poster child for never leaving well enough alone. It always has been known for its excesses. Excessive styling, excessive horsepower, excessive prices. It defines the term.
And the latest definition of excess? The Lamborghini Reventón Roadster.
Let’s just get the numbers out of the way right now, shall we? That’s all anyone really cares about when talking about an Italian V-12 supercar. The 6.5 liter, 12-cylinder mill puts out 662 horsepower. The car does 0 to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds. It tops out at 205 mph. But the most important number is 20. As in that’s precisely how many Lamborghini will build.
“The Reventón is the most extreme car in the history of the brand,” says Stephan Winkelmann, president and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. “The new Roadster adds an extra emotional component to our combined technological expertise — it unites superior performance with the sensual fascination of open-top driving.”
Like the Reventón Coupé, you can have your Reventón Roadster in any color you like so long as it’s Reventón Grey, which Lambo claims is a slightly different shade of gray than Reventón Coupé. It still looks like primer gray to us, but as long-time hot rodders, we’re used to it.
Naturally the wheels are extra-special, too. Painted in a two-tone matte-and-glossy paint scheme, each spoke features a small crescent-shaped wing of matte-finished carbon fiber. Lamborghini says it provides “an unusual visual impact, [and] also a turbine effect that further improves cooling of the mighty ceramic brake discs.” Mighty? Well, we our pleased with ourselves, aren’t we?
All this stylish power hits the road through an all-wheel drive system and a running-gear layout Lamborghini says is “from motorsport;” which is funny, because Lamborghini doesn’t do much racing. (That’s one reason the guys in Maranello snicker when someone mentions Lamborghini.) The engine is mounted longitudinally amidships, with the transmission ahead and beneath the center tunnel, meaning 58 percent of the weight sits on the rear axle. Luckily (for your insurance carrier), there’s a viscous-traction, permanent all-wheel-drive that puts all 662 ponies to the ground through all four wheels. Yes, the torque split is variable and automatic, meaning you can more or less point the car, mash the pedal and hang on. Just make sure you aim carefully.
Price? About 12 times what your kidney would fetch on the open market. The Reventón Roadster will go for 1.1 million Euros before taxes (about $1.6 million at today’s exchange rate). Deliveries are being made now, so call your black-market “doctor” for an appointment.
Photos: Lamborghini
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