Only 29 coupes exist. Now Lamborghini is about to make even fewer roadsters.
The Italian automaker teased a new open-top model on social media this week, and the darkened image leaves little to the imagination. The aggressive hood intakes, carbon fiber splitter, and vertical air curtains all point squarely to one car: the Fenomeno Spyder, expected to debut tomorrow at Lamborghini’s Arena event at Imola.
The timing is deliberate. Lamborghini turns 63 this year, a number the company treats as sacred given its 1963 founding. This is how Sant’Agata celebrates — not with cake, but with a thousand-plus-horsepower birthday present to itself and the handful of clients who can afford the invitation.
The Fenomeno coupe already sits at the summit of Lamborghini’s current range. Its naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 produces 824 hp on its own, making it the most powerful twelve-cylinder the company has ever bolted into a car. Three electric motors — two up front, one packed into the eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox — push combined output to 1,065 hp and 793 lb-ft of torque.
That’s 64 hp more than the Revuelto on which it’s based, enough to shave a tenth off the sprint to 62 mph, which the coupe dispatches in 2.4 seconds flat. Top speed sits beyond 217 mph.
The roadster should carry identical powertrain numbers, though real-world performance could shift in either direction. Dropping the roof usually adds structural bracing and weight, which slows things down. But the Fenomeno’s carbon fiber chassis and bodywork could minimize that penalty — or eliminate it entirely if Lamborghini’s engineers got creative with the tub.
History offers clues about production volume. The Aventador SVJ got 900 units; the SVJ Roadster got 800. The Reventón was built 21 times; the Reventón Roadster just 15. If the Fenomeno coupe stops at 29, expect the Spyder to land somewhere south of that.
Pricing remains undisclosed, which in Lamborghini’s world means if you have to ask, you already know the answer. The standard Revuelto commands north of $600,000. A million dollars for the Fenomeno Spyder seems reasonable. Two million wouldn’t shock anyone.
This car also fills a conspicuous gap. Lamborghini currently has no open-top model in its lineup at all, a strange position for a brand whose identity is built on theater. The Temerario Spyder has been spotted testing and will address the volume side of that equation, while the Fenomeno Spyder addresses the other side — the one where exclusivity is the product.
And Lamborghini isn’t done. A harder-edged Revuelto has been photographed flogging the Nürburgring with more aggressive aero, possibly carrying the SV badge, with rumors of up to 1,200 hp. A Miura-inspired special edition has been whispered about, though CEO Stephan Winkelmann has publicly expressed fatigue with retro tributes since the Countach LPI-800.
The pattern is unmistakable. Lamborghini is flooding 2026 with product, spinning off Revuelto variants at every price point from expensive to absurd. The plug-in hybrid V12 is doing exactly what it was designed to do: keep the twelve-cylinder alive while generating the kind of numbers that make battery-only supercars look ordinary.
Tomorrow at Imola, a few dozen people will see a car most of us will never touch. That’s the point.
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