Lamborghini has unveiled its new Huracán Performante Spyder at the Geneva International Motor Show. Similar to the Performante coupé, the Spyder has a 5.2 liter that generates 640 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque. The all-wheel drive Performante Spyder can accelerate from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 3.1 seconds, from 0-200 km/h (0-124 mph) in 9.3 seconds, and has a top speed of 325 km/h (202 mph), the same as the coupe. The Spyder has a weight distribution of 43/57% front/rear.

“The Huracán Performante Spyder takes the zenith of Huracán developments, combined with the enhanced emotion of driving a convertible,” said Stefano Domenicali, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Automobili Lamborghini. “The Huracán Performante already provides the most heightened feedback and emotion from road and track, and the Huracán Performante Spyder puts the driver even closer to asphalt and air, as well as the unique resonance of a naturally-aspirated Lamborghini engine.”

The roof opens in just 17 seconds and can be operated at speeds of up to 50 km/h (31 mph). The rear window can also be electrically opened, which functions as a windshield when closed. When the roof is down, the Huracán Performante Spyder’s design incorporates two movable fins, which rise out of the folding roof casing and continue the roofline from seatbacks to the rear of the car, lending the Spyder its distinctive silhouette. An integrated duct within the fins reduces turbulence in the headroom during open-top driving. Two additional, removable wind guards damp lateral aerodynamic pulsations, ensuring perfect acoustic comfort that allows conversation even at high speeds.

The Performante takes its design cues from Super Trofeo race cars and performance motorcycles with their naked, open-frame characters. The Huracán Performante Spyder is a supercar as capable on the track as it is on the road.

The visible carbon fiber running throughout the aluminium body emphasises the Huracán Performante Spyder’s lightweight character and contributes to a weight reduction of 35 kg (77 lbs) over the original Huracán Spyder. Forged composites are used in the front and rear spoiler, engine cover, rear bumper and aerodynamic diffuser.

The Spyder’s soft-top does not compromise the ALA system (Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva), which varies aero load in conditions requiring either high down force or low drag, as well as enabling aero vectoring in high-speed cornering, which helps provide improved driving dynamics on track and on road. Lamborghini’s Piattaforma Inerziale (LPI) system governs all the car’s electronic systems in real time, including the car’s set-up as well as activating the ALA system in less than 500 milliseconds, ensuring the best aerodynamic set-up of the car in every driving condition.

The lightweight, electrohydraulic roof ensures the Huracán Performante open-top complements the car’s lines both open and closed, and maintaining rigidity, handling and performance. Even as a convertible, the Huracán Performante Spyder maintains supercar stiffness. When The roof defines the Performante’s dynamic silhouette while closed, and when down is efficiently stored to maintain the Performante Spyder’s low center of gravity.

Delivery of the Huracán Performante Spyder will commence in the summer of 2018 with a suggested retail price in the United States of USD $308,859 plus fees and taxes.