2018 Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder Gallery

How do you make the Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder more extreme? By chopping the roof off, that's how. Taking the 640 horsepower track beast that is the coupe and replacing its hard top with a folding chunk of canvas the Performante Spyder is designed for those who want even more attention in public.

Indeed, nobody is going to miss you when the 5.2-liter V10 engine is roused. Even in Strada street-mode it's not exactly quiet, but things really get serious in the Sport or track-minded Corsa settings. 0-60 mph arrives in 3.1 seconds, a smudge slower than the coupe but hardly worth complaining over.

Thankfully unchanged is Lamborghini's innovative aero vectoring system, which guides air out through vents in the rear wing to glue the Performante Spyder's rump to the asphalt in corners. Inside, lashings of grippy Alcantara live alongside forged composites: slivers of macerated carbon fiber locked in an easily-castable, lightweight resin. Figure on $309k upwards to have one on your drive.