The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster Closes the Few-Off Era With 1,080 CV and Just Fifteen Worldwide

On May 9, beneath the lights of the Lamborghini Arena at Imola, Sant’Agata pulled the cover off the Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster — a 1,080 CV V12 hybrid open-top built in just fifteen examples worldwide. This is not merely a new model. It is the closing punctuation on a near-twenty-year lineage of Few-Off cars that began with the Reventón Coupé in 2007 and has produced some of the most coveted machines ever to wear the raging bull. Every one of those fifteen units was almost certainly spoken for before anyone saw it in public. The collector class is already done shopping. The rest of us are here to admire what we cannot have.

It is also the most powerful open-top car Lamborghini has ever produced. Zero to 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds. Zero to 200 in 6.8. A top speed beyond 340 km/h. The Fenomeno Roadster is the Speedster bookend to last year’s Fenomeno Coupé — five units rarer, technically more aggressive, and arriving as the Few-Off era closes and the next chapter of Lamborghini’s V12 hybrid future opens.

The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster and the End of the Few-Off Era

The Few-Off lineage is one of the great chess games in modern supercar collecting. It opened in 2007 with the Reventón Coupé, expanded with the Reventón Roadster in 2009, and continued through the Veneno (2013), Centenario (2016), Sián (2019), and the Fenomeno Coupé in 2025. Each car has been a low-volume design exercise built on contemporary Lamborghini engineering, sold to a hand-selected register of clients, and almost immediately appreciated past its sticker. The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster is the seventh and — as Sant’Agata frames it — final chapter of the project as we have known it.

The Imola reveal was the second annual edition of the Lamborghini Arena, the marque’s purpose-built celebration of its racing and road-car heritage. There is a deliberate echo in the choice of venue: the Reventón Roadster’s 2009 debut traded on the same kind of theatrical reveal that has become a signature of Sant’Agata’s top-tier launches. Where the original Reventón Coupé arrived as a fighter-jet provocation, the Fenomeno Roadster arrives as the closing argument — the last word from an era that prized exclusivity and visual aggression in equal measure.

Inside the Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster’s V12 Hybrid Heart

The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster runs the most powerful V12 Sant’Agata has ever built. The 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 produces 835 CV on its own at 9,250 rpm — a specific output exceeding 128 CV per liter, an extraordinary number for a road-going atmospheric engine. Paired with three electric motors and an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox, combined system output reaches 1,080 CV / 1,065 HP. A 7 kWh lithium-ion battery enables a fully electric drive mode for short distances, allowing the Fenomeno Roadster to slip out of a Monaco garage in silence before the V12 wakes up.

This is also Lamborghini’s first V12 hybrid HPEV roadster — the architecture introduced in the Revuelto and refined here for the open-top format. The mechanical story of the Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster is, in that sense, both a closing and an opening: it is the final Few-Off built around the formula Sant’Agata has cultivated over twenty years, and it is the most aggressive expression yet of the hybrid V12 architecture that will define the next twenty.

Design Language and the Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster’s Sculptural Identity

The roadster format is the more difficult design problem. The Fenomeno Roadster solves it with a flat windshield finished in an embossed carbon spoiler, rollover protection integrated into Speedster humps behind the seats, and a hexagonal Y-theme that runs through the intakes, wheel arches, LED signatures, and interior vents. Centro Stile head Mitja Borkert describes the visual effect of the engine bay as floating — the rear deck appearing to hover above the V12 it conceals. After twenty years at the helm of Lamborghini’s design language, Borkert continues to find ways to make 1,080 CV look inevitable.

The show car wears Blu Cepheus over Rosso Mars detailing, a paintwork pairing that tributes the city colors of Bologna and recalls the Miura Roadster of 1968. The rear treatment draws cues from the Essenza SCV12 and from Lamborghini’s 1970s racing prototypes. The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster is, by every visual measure, a closing argument for what the Few-Off project has stood for.

The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster as Collector Object

Fifteen examples. Five fewer than the Fenomeno Coupé. A run almost certainly sold out before the cover came off. The Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster will not appear at dealer auctions. It will not show up at an enthusiast lot. It will appear at concours events in five years, at Monterey Car Week in ten, and at major auctions twenty years from now wearing a hammer price that is, by all reasonable historical precedent, several multiples of its delivery cost.

Pricing has not been publicly disclosed by Sant’Agata, in keeping with the Few-Off tradition of negotiating delivery on an individual basis with the select clients invited to participate. For collectors not on that list, NOVITEC’s 1,048 hp Revuelto refinement is the closest the same V12 hybrid architecture comes to the gate — though without the canon entry the Fenomeno Roadster commands. For the rest of us, the Lamborghini Fenomeno Roadster will live on the screen, on the wall, and in the conversation about what Sant’Agata built when there were still no rules.

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