2014 LAMBORGHINI Aventador Roadster Review

The Lamborghini Aventador is now a Roadster, a transformation that takes its sensorial overload driving experience to a whole new level. This thing doesn’t just look ballistic, it also drives this way. The Italians have managed to offer us an unprecedented level of exuberance. Bullseye!

The best part of the Aventador Roadster is this personality. By the way, this can be felt at any speed, roof up or down. Even in the exotic machinery world, this is a rare feat. It’s what makes the Aventador Roadster look at cars like the McLaren MP4-12C Spider and laugh its rear wing off.

However, the character boost you gain compared to the Aventador Coupe weighs less than what you lose to the fixed roof model. For the sake of decency, the Roadster’s roof “mechanism” is made of your hands and the trunk.

Once you get past all the work, the Aventador Roadster offers plenty of wind protection. It inspires you to drive it without its top, but the effort is just too big. Call us lazy if you want, but we’ll stick to this conclusion.

What’s more, the Aventador Roadster has stiffened up its suspension to keep up with the Coupe. It’s all nice to drive with the wind in your hair, but not when things get all shaky.

The Aventador Coupe is struggling not to cross the line beyond which supercars become hopelessly impractical. The Roadster, with its manual roof and wind deflector, has taken that leap.

These drawbacks make us choose the Aventador Coupe over the Roadster. Now it’s the McLaren MP4-12C Spider, along with the Ferrari 458 Spider, that are laughing. Sure, they’re not as spectacular as the Aventador Roadster, but you can select them over their coupe counterparts any day.

To have the complete Lamborghini Aventador Roadster image, you should know that its starting price sits at about $445,000, including a $3,700 gas-guzzler tax. This places it roughly $65,000 over the Aventador Coupe.

In Europe, the Aventador Roadster comes with an EUR60,000 price premium over its brother. The starting price is EUR360,000 (19 percent VAT included). Don’t worry though, these aren’t even the real figures - nobody buys anything with a Lamborghini badge for its starting price.