Lamborghini’s Temerario Is Losing Its Roof — And Maybe Its Hybrid System Too

Lamborghini’s newest V8 supercar has barely reached dealers, and prototypes of an open-top version are already running laps of the Nürburgring.

Spy photographers caught a heavily camouflaged Lamborghini Temerario Spyder testing on the Nordschleife this year, confirming what Lamborghini has been hinting at since the coupe’s 2024 debut at Monterey Car Week — a roadster is coming. The Temerario itself is a significant car for the brand, the direct successor to the Huracán, and it marked Lamborghini’s full shift to hybrid power across its line-up alongside the Revuelto and the Urus SE. What has turned the Spyder story into something more interesting is a detail several outlets spotted on the test car itself — the mandatory high-voltage warning stickers that German law requires on any prototype carrying hybrid battery hardware were missing.

A V8-only Spyder?

That omission has fuelled genuine speculation that the Spyder, or at least this particular test mule, might be running without the plug-in hybrid system that defines the standard Temerario. The coupe pairs a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 with an electric motor setup for a combined output reported at somewhere between roughly 900 and 920 horsepower depending on the source, with a 0-100 km/h time under three seconds — figures that made it one of the most talked-about launches in recent Lamborghini history. If the open-top car really is testing as a lighter, non-hybrid variant, it would be a notable hedge from a manufacturer that has otherwise committed hard to electrification across every current model.

Nothing is official yet. Reports disagree on both the eventual power figure and the reveal date, with some outlets pointing to a late-2026 unveiling and others pushing it into 2027, possibly timed to a venue like Pebble Beach or Goodwood — the same circuit of events the brand has used to launch recent Temerario-based variants such as the Fenomeno and the Revuelto SV before it.

For Dubai, the Temerario story is already well underway. The coupe landed in the UAE earlier this year, and Dubai Police has since added one to its own tourist-facing patrol fleet, about as clear a signal as any that the car has arrived as a genuine presence on local roads rather than a reveal-stage curiosity. A Spyder variant, whenever it is finally confirmed, will only sharpen that appetite. Open-top V8 supercars tend to move quickly in a market that spends more of the year with the roof down than most, and Lamborghini’s convertibles have historically commanded a real premium over the coupe on arrival in the GCC.

That is also where House of Cars Dubai comes in. Early-arrival supercars like the Temerario rarely sit on dealer lots for long once they reach the region, and a convertible version of an already scarce car will be scarcer still when it lands. We track allocation, early builds and genuine GCC-spec stock across Lamborghini and the other marques we carry, so that clients who want to be first into a new variant, Spyder included once it is official, are working from real information rather than rumour and spy shots. Whether you’re trying to source a current Temerario coupe today or want an honest read on where a future Spyder will land in AED terms once it officially reaches Dubai, that is exactly the kind of conversation we have with buyers every week.

Until Lamborghini confirms the Spyder properly, the safest thing to say is this — the roof is coming off, the hybrid question is genuinely open, and a car that already turns heads in Dubai traffic is about to get even more desirable.