GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Lamborghini lands Huracán Performante Spyder

As night follows day, a higher-performance Lamborghini Huracán inevitably means a higher-performance Lamborghini Huracán Spyder.

Lamborghini courted controversy last year with the Huracán Performante and its record-smashing Norsdscheife lap, but there are fewer doubters now after independent testing.

Now that same actively variable aerodynamic technology has found its way onto the Huracán Spyder.

The Huracán Spyder Performante’s straight-line performance isn’t demonstrably different to the standard car, but Lamborghini promises its cornering pace will be.

It leverages the mid-mounted 5.2-litre naturally aspirated V10 for 470kW of power at 8000rpm and 600Nm of torque. Lamborghini claims that’s good for a 3.1-second sprint to 100km/h, 0-200km/h in 9.3 seconds and a 325km/h top speed.

The maximum torque doesn’t arrive until 6500rpm, which is tall by modern turbo standards, but Lamborghini counters that 70 per cent of the torque peak is already underfoot at 1000rpm.

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The 1507kg supercar hangs 57 per cent of its weight over the rear axle and hauls down from 100km/h in just 31.5 metres.

“The Huracán Performante Spyder takes the zenith of Huracán developments, combined with the enhanced emotion of driving a convertible,” Lamborghini chairman and CEO Stefano Domenicali extolled.

“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.”