Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster
Driven since 2016, and serviced by the book.
One of 500 SV Roadsters built. Its stamped service book runs from delivery through five Lamborghini dealer services to the most recent, at our own workshop in April 2026.
£564,990
Not a power kit. A different car.
It is tempting to take "SV" as shorthand for more horsepower and leave it there. Compared with the standard Aventador Roadster, the changes go further: around fifty kilograms saved, largely through wider use of carbon fibre, a three-position rear wing with a reworked splitter and diffuser for real downforce, and magnetorheological pushrod suspension front and rear.
Going open-top raised a question of its own: how much of that survives without a fixed roof. Nearly all of it. The car's stiffness comes from its carbon fibre monocoque, so the roof can be two panels of under six kilograms each, lifted out by hand and stowed in the front luggage compartment.
The result is less an Aventador with extra options than a separate car on the same platform: sharper chassis settings, a more focused cabin, and a driving character harder-edged and more urgent than the standard Roadster's. It is also the first series-built open Lamborghini to carry the SuperVeloce name, which runs back through the Murciélago SV and the Diablo SV to the Miura SV of 1971.
Drawn in angles, not curves
Every Aventador is a study in hexagons and straight edges, a language Lamborghini has held to since the car's debut: the Y-shaped lighting, the sharply folded bonnet, side intakes cut deep enough to work as hard as they look. The SV takes none of it back. If anything, the creases run harder.
It also adds tells of its own: a deeper front end with larger intakes, a rear wing standing clear of the bodywork, and a larger diffuser beneath the exhausts. Each was shaped for airflow first, and the car looks more serious for it.
The specification works in yellow and black. The body is Giallo Orion, a pearl yellow; the roof panels and fixed rear air intakes are matt exposed carbon fibre, and the Dianthus forged wheels are black. Yellow returns on the brake callipers, and red appears only on the centre locks. Even the SV logos on the flanks were ordered in the smaller size.
With the roof stowed, there is nothing left to soften the engine’s voice.
8,400 rpm, reached without help
The 6.5-litre V12 owes nothing to turbochargers or electric motors. It makes its power the way naturally aspirated engines always have, through revs, pulling cleanly to the redline and delivering 750 hp and 690 Nm on the way. Lamborghini quotes 0-62 mph in 2.9 seconds, 0-124 mph in 8.8 seconds and a top speed beyond 217 mph.
Drive goes to all four wheels, split by an electronically controlled system with a mechanical self-locking differential at the rear. Between the engine and the wheels sits the ISR gearbox, a single-clutch seven-speed unit that makes no attempt at a dual-clutch's seamlessness. Each shift arrives as a distinct mechanical event, felt through the seat and heard over the exhaust.
On this car the engine bonnet is the transparent option, so the V12 stays on view. Beneath the glass, the X-shaped brace across the bay and the T-shaped engine cover are both in carbon fibre.
The one part of this car no photograph can capture.
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Less, on purpose
The SV. Much of the sound insulation came out, navigation became an option, and exposed carbon fibre was left on show in the door panels and the shells of the sport seats.
This one. Nero Cosmus Alcantara throughout, with Giallo Taurus yellow in the stitching and in a stripe across each seat, and a carbon fibre footplate on the passenger side. Navigation, a reversing camera and the Sensonum sound system were ordered back in.
From here, the car itself.
A stamped book from the first day.
Delivered through Lamborghini Pangbourne in February 2016, and driven 21,898 miles since.
- 2016Pre-delivery inspection: Lamborghini Pangbourne
- 2017Service, 5,830 miles: Lamborghini Manchester
- 2018Service, 11,675 miles: Lamborghini Manchester
- 2020Service, 15,129 miles: Lamborghini Birmingham
- 2022Service, 17,921 miles: Lamborghini Tunbridge Wells
- 2024Service, 19,501 miles: Lamborghini Tunbridge Wells
- 2026Service, 21,878 miles: our own workshop
The book shows a car that was used rather than stored, with a visit to a Lamborghini dealer every year or two: Manchester, then Birmingham, then Tunbridge Wells. We carried out the latest service ourselves, in April 2026.
Both keys come with it, along with the book itself. One of 500 SV Roadsters built, it is one of around 65 supplied new to the UK [and has had (number) owners].
The numbers, in full
This Car
Engine
Performance
Engine details
Transmission & Drivetrain
Chassis & Body
Suspension & Steering
Brakes
Wheels & Tyres
Dimensions & Weight
Safety
Options
All figures as supplied by the manufacturer and selling dealer, subject to buyer verification.
Beyond the specification sheet
Some of it only shows at speed.
See it in motion
Viewing in Ashford, Kent.
Enquiries come directly to us, and the car can be seen at our showroom in Ashford, under forty minutes from London St Pancras by high-speed train.