Two-tone paint has always been a way to make a car look more attractive. Coachbuilders in the 1930s used it to make heavy saloons look lower, and the Bugatti Type 57 wore its contrasting panels like a tailored suit. Half a century later, every teenager with a poster of a yellow supercar knew that the darker the roofline, the more menacing the stance. Lamborghini’s whole design language is built on looking low, wide, and aggressive.
The Temerario Tettonero is the latest proof. It is a limited-series capsule for Lamborghini’s twin-turbo V8 plug-in hybrid, created by the Centro Stile design team, with a Nero Noctis roof and hood over one of five hand-picked body colours. Nothing changes under the skin, which is fine, because underneath sits a 10,000rpm V8 with three electric motors and 920 CV, or about 907hp.
What Does Tettonero Mean?
Tettonero is Italian for “black roof”, from tetto (roof) and nero (black), and it is sometimes written as two words, tetto nero. The name is the whole brief. Every Tettonero wears Nero Noctis on the roof and the hood, and Lamborghini calls the black hood the defining element of the car’s identity.
Sant’Agata has done this before. The 2005 Gallardo SE, limited to 250 cars, put Nero Noctis on the roof, engine cover, spoilers and mirrors over six body colours, and the Huracán EVO Fluo Capsule of late 2020 paired five fluorescent shades with a matte black roof, front bumper and side skirts. The formula has now returned for the Huracán’s successor. Earlier this year, the Urus SE Tettonero opened the new capsule collection at Milan Design Week in April 2026, limited to 630 units and offered in more than 70 configurations.
Five Colours, One Black Roof
The palette is short and deliberately loud. The launch car wears Giallo Inti, and the other choices are Arancio Xanto, Blu Cepheus, Verde Scandal and Viola Pasifae. Lamborghini says these are among its customers’ favourite shades, which tells you plenty about the sort of person who buys a Temerario. Nobody in this family is shopping for beige.
Nero Noctis then works its way around the car. Besides the hood and roof, the black contrast runs through the front splitter and its hexagonal motifs, the rear diffuser, the Lamborghini logo, and the details around the mid-mounted engine. Buyers who want more can add optional Nero Noctis accents on the front hood and bumper to sharpen the car’s signature lines. The front and rear bumpers, side mirrors, and wheels get a High Gloss Black finish.
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Inside The Tettonero Cabin
The two-tone theme follows you inside. The seats are trimmed in Nero Ade upholstery with Grigio Octans contrast stitching and Q-citura quilting in a hexagonal pattern, which is Sant’Agata’s favourite shape. Stitching matched to the body colour is available if you want the cabin to shout as loudly as the paint.
Each headrest carries an embroidered Lamborghini logo, the door panels get Tettonero lettering, and the bulkhead behind the seats wears an embroidered two-tone silhouette of the Temerario’s rear in colour-matched thread. On the driver’s side sits a Matt Carbon plaque that marks each car as part of the limited series.
The rest of the cockpit is standard Temerario, which means three screens: a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, an 8.4-inch central display and a 9.1-inch passenger display, so the person in the other seat can watch the revs climb in real time.
The 10,000rpm V8 Stays The Same
Under the black hood sits the same hardware as every Temerario. The 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 makes 800 CV, about 789hp, between 9,000 and 9,750rpm, and 730Nm between 4,000 and 7,000rpm, and Lamborghini says it is the first production super sports car engine to reach 10,000rpm. Three axial-flux electric motors, each rated at 110 kW (about 148hp), add their shove: one sits between the V8 and the gearbox to fill the gaps between shifts, while the two on the front axle deliver up to 2,150Nm and give the car all-wheel drive.
The combined output is 920 CV, about 907hp, and 800Nm, fed through an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. A 3.8 kWh battery in the central tunnel allows short silent runs in Città mode, handy for leaving the house at dawn without waking the street. The numbers are 0 to 100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and a top speed of 343 km/h, with a 1,690 kg dry weight.
The car measures 4,706mm long, 1,996mm wide and 1,201mm tall, on a 2,658mm wheelbase. The standard Temerario rides on Magneride dampers and 20-inch front and 21-inch rear wheels, and it stops with carbon-ceramic brakes clamped by 10-piston front calipers on 410 mm discs. For the Tettonero, Lamborghini only says the wheels get a High Gloss Black finish, without confirming sizes or design.
Where It Fits Among The Rivals
The Temerario replaced the Huracán in August 2024 and lines up against the Ferrari 296 GTB with about 819hp and the McLaren 750S with about 740hp, while the hybrid Ferrari 849 Testarossa raises the stakes with about 1,036hp. McLaren’s upcoming McL 820, at about 809hp, will join the fight in 2027.
The Tettonero adds no power to that contest, and it doesn’t need to. In a segment where the spec sheets are separated by a few tenths, the car that stands out at the valet stand often wins the buyer.
Production And Price
Lamborghini calls the Tettonero a limited series but hasn’t said how many will be built, unlike the Urus SE version and its published 630-unit cap. Markets and delivery dates haven’t been announced either.
There is no official price. Reports mention the standard Temerario, which has already landed in the Middle East, is priced between AED 1.35 million and AED 1.6 million in the UAE, but pricing for the Tettonero is unconfirmed at the moment.
