Huracan Performante Spyder

All the noise, all the aero trickery – no roof

SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION, Lamborghini’s V10-engined little monster has multiplied from a car to a model range. We love the iterations that bookend that range: the most ‘affordable’ Huracan, the RWD Coupe (two driven wheels, reduced weight, marginally less money); and the range-topping Performante, which deploys increased power, reduced weight and uprated aero to take the Huracan to a level uncomfortably close to that of the mighty V12 Aventador.

Until now, Lamborghini’s offered Spyder versions of two of its three Huracans, with the Performante the conspicuous lonely coupe… The Performante Spyder fixes that.

Changes are nothing more or less than you’d expect. In comes a folding soft-top roof, up goes the weight (by 125kg to 1507kg thanks to the engineering required by the roof mechanism) and the astonishing performance figures go all but unchanged: 3.1sec to 62mph versus the coupe’s 2.9sec. Top speed is still a touch over the double-ton (201mph) and the Spyder retains the Coupe’s active aero: movable flaps in the nose and ducts that can stall the rear wing on demand, to slash drag. These systems can be deployed independently, to shift the car’s aero balance front/rear, and asymmetrically for an aero-vectoring effect.

Factor in the other Performante-specific upgrades – far stiffer suspension mounts, beefier spring and damping rates, a still more powerful engine with lightweight titanium valves and a titanium exhaust – and the potential’s there for a sports car capable of comprehensively scrambling your senses.

Find the required £230k (price to be confirmed) and your Performante Spyder could be with you this summer. Lovely.