Hold onto you're toupee's rich elderly men! The Aventador Roadster is here!

Hold onto your toupee’s rich elderly men, because Lamborghini has just unleashed its 217mph Aventador Radster. In fact, if you’re rich enough, and hence elderly enough, you'll want to hold onto you’re whizzing little head, because at 217mph it might just come off and make its way into the enormous air intakes that feed the fire breathing (literally, click here) 700hp V12 engine. Not nice.

Someones pretty good with a pencil ay? Damn it looks good!

But we’re in the 21^st century now, and Lamborghinis don’t really want to kill people as much as they once did. They much prefer to just break you’re neck and make pooh come out these days. But, just in case, to stop you’re head from coming off at 217mph Lamborghini have installed this ingenious device called a wind deflector which, if it’s anything like the one on my car – will do absolutely nothing at all. So, there are also new pillars and a new engine cover – which is very angley, and cool looking- to create a pocket of undisturbed air around the cabin, to keep you’re passengers hair in check and you’re hair – if you can call it that – stuck to you’re head. 

And thanks to the carbon composite tub of the Aventador, no extra pig iron needed to be added to the structure of the Aventador in order prevent 690nm of V12 torque twisting the chassis into a knot. Lamborghni, erm, ‘purists’ will be happy too, because in whisking the roof off of the Aventador, there has been no loss of torsional rigidity, and it should feel exactly the same to drive as it’s hard topped sibling, except for the aural delights of that thunderous V12 engine whose noise is one of the wonders of the automotive world, obviously. Acceleration is virtually identical to the hardtop, with the roadster giving away just 0.1 of a second to the hardtop, so 0-60 takes just 3 brutal, sick inducing seconds. And if you think you’ll notice the acceleration differences between the roadster and the coupe, you’re probably more of a GT-R nerd than Lamborghini’s target audience is.

The detailing on the engine cover is just awesome. Cool color too.

The roadster also comes with two new types of wheels, which are 20” and 21”, and very fantastic looking. And there are also many new colors which are exclusive to the roadster. The green one looks very cool. Very Lamborghini. 

Yep. Still looking good.

But, there is a but. And it’s not something that would bother me, but it might if you’re getting on a bit. The roof is manually operated. It’s made up of two carbon fibre pieces which weigh a total of 6kg, and need to be stored under the front bonnet of the car. While it “only takes a few seconds” as Lamborghini says, I can see it drawing out into the minutes, and then if you’ve got to ask you’re plastic fantastic passenger (all Lamborghini owners have these. Fact) to help you out then you’re not going to get very far.

The Aventador Roadster will cost around $789,000 here in Oz, or around 300,000 Euros... What ever way you look at it, it is a lot of money. You’d have to be pretty ruddy old to have saved up that much, that’s for sure!

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