Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster confirmed

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster outed by the US Government

It’s news all Lamborghini fans have been waiting for, the confirmation that Lamborghini are going to chop the top off the LP700-4 and give us the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster.

To be honest, we weren’t expecting any sort of confirmation from Lamborghini on the Aventador Roadster until later this year, perhaps with a first outing at Frankfurt in September or even Geneva early in 2012.

And it’s not Lamborghini who’ve revealed the Aventador Roadster will be with us next year. That confirmation has come from a rather unlikely source – the US Government department responsible for all things fuel consumption in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The EPA has a web site where it lists the fuel economy of all cars on sale in the US. And it’s managed to produce two lots of figures for the Aventador for 2012, the first for the coupé and the second for the Aventador Roadster.

The fact that the EPA lists the two cars as having almost identical fuel economy (that’s 13mpg US combined), that an Aventador Roadster will use 26.3 barrels of oil to produce the fuel to take it 15,000 miles and that it will emit 14.3 tons of CO2 in the process, is of no consequence.

What is of consequence is that the Aventador Roadster will be here sooner rather than later and will no doubt be as colossal a car as its coupé sibling.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t have an origami soft top like the Murcielago.

By Cars UK