This black Lamborghini Huracan Spyder with a red cabin is based in Orange County. It is the night version of our two Spyders, reading as serious by day and as a very good evening once the sun goes down and the roof comes off. It carries the lower per mile rate of the pair. Book it for evening plans.
Dropping the roof costs this Spyder a fraction of a second to sixty, 3.4 rather than the coupe's 3.2, and buys you the only thing that matters in a car like this. With the top stowed the naturally aspirated V10 is no longer behind glass, and how loud and immediate it feels changes dramatically rather than a little. 602 horsepower goes through all four wheels, so the extra weight of the roof mechanism never shows up as wheelspin. Run it up Ortega Highway with the windows up and the wind stays manageable enough to talk over at speed. The chassis feels no different from the coupe on any public Orange County road.
Black with a red cabin on an open car only works because the roof folds. Closed, the cabin hides and the car is an anonymous dark wedge. Open, the red leather becomes a band of colour running through the middle of the frame, and the whole image changes. Shoot it roof down, in the evening or under the lit forecourt of a restaurant in Costa Mesa, where black bodywork keeps its shape. Midday sun over Newport will flatten it into a silhouette, so save this one for dusk. The lower per mile rate on this car is also worth knowing if the day runs long.
Two Huracan Spyders live in our fleet at the same rate, and this is the dark one. With the roof stowed the red cabin becomes a band of colour through the middle of a black car, which is a stronger frame than the exterior gives on its own, and it works best at night or under a lit forecourt rather than at noon. Our white Spyder is the daylight booking for the same reason in reverse. This one also carries the lower per mile rate of the two, $4 against $5, so an evening that turns into a longer drive costs less on this car.
This is a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder in black over a red cabin, based in Orange County. It runs the original 5.2 litre naturally aspirated V10 at 602 horsepower, with all wheel drive and a seven speed dual clutch gearbox, standard on this trim. The fabric roof folds in seventeen seconds and can be lowered while the car is moving at low speed, with a small rear window that drops independently for sound or for wind control. There is no centre touchscreen on this generation, controls run through the driver's cluster. Carbon ceramic brakes and the ANIMA drive selector are both standard.