At The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, on August 14th, 2026, a car without a roof stood as the second statement from a restomod house that has made reinvention its entire reason for being. Eccentrica, based in San Marino, brought the V12 Roadster before the public there for the first time, an open-air evolution of the original Eccentrica V12 built on a ground-up rework of the first-series Lamborghini Diablo.
The company was founded by Mr Emanuel Colombini, an entrepreneur and collector of Lamborghinis, on a strict rule: strip a first-series Diablo down completely and put it back together with nothing left to chance. That promise is not a figure of speech at Eccentrica: each car carries more than 3,500 components made bespoke for it, and no system is left as it was, every one of them rebuilt from the ground up rather than merely refreshed. It was this approach, applied first to the closed-roof V12, that established Eccentrica's case for the art of reinvention in an industry not short of restomod ambition, and it is the same approach that takes a car of the 1990s and turns it into the analogue supercar its own makers say they would dream up today.
The Roadster follows on from that first car, developed together with Borromeo De Silva, a design studio out of Milan, and it goes further still, stripping the machine down toward its rawest, most purposeful state. Mr Colombini frames the relationship between the two cars directly. "The Eccentrica V12 was our opening statement. The Roadster is the next chapter; more exposed, more immediate, more demanding. No roof. No filter. Nothing between you and the machine," he shares. No roof, indeed, and as well no pretense that this is a gentler machine than the coupe it descends from.
Behind the Roadster's development stands a team led by Mr Maurizio Reggiani, who once held the Chief Technical Officer post at Lamborghini and is credited as the man behind the Murciélago, Gallardo, Aventador and Huracán. Under that guidance the body of the V12 Roadster has been crafted entirely in steel and carbon fiber, its track pushed wider and its proportions recalculated so the car sits lower and more planted on the road, all without losing the silhouette that made the original Diablo instantly recognizable. Removing the roof is never a simple subtraction on a car built this way, and Eccentrica treated it as such, running a dedicated study of how air behaves around an open cockpit before signing off on the change, precisely so that losing the roof would add to the driving experience instead of taking something away from it.
Further to the bodywork, the original Diablo platform itself has been reworked underneath: structural sections reinforced in carbon fiber, suspension geometry redesigned from scratch, and a bespoke semi-active damper system fitted in place of the old setup. Steering is hydraulically assisted and braking comes from a Brembo system brought fully up to date, additions Eccentrica says leave the car lighter, faster and more connected, keeping the road itself present in the driver's hands instead of screened out.
At the heart of the car sits a re-engineered 5.7-liter naturally aspirated V12 of 60 degrees, a power aggregate worked over for a much sharper throttle response, greater elasticity and a far more immediate delivery of power than its thirty-year-old origins would otherwise suggest. The recipe behind that lies in a recalibrated ECU, reworked thermal management and airflow optimized for efficiency, and out of it comes 550 hp at 7,000 rpm alongside 600 Nm of torque peaking at 6,500 rpm, numbers that keep faith with the original engine's character while adding a precision only achievable with today's engineering. Top speed reaches a splintering 208 mph! A six-speed gated manual gearbox, close-ratio and fitted with reverse, keeps the driver in the loop on every shift, and three distinct driving modes let the car be set up for whichever road lies ahead.
On the numbers, the V12 Roadster covers 0 to 100 kph in 3.8 seconds and stops from 100 kph to 0 in 111 feet, or 34 meters. Curb weight is set at 3,395 pounds, 1,540 kg, distributed 41 percent front and 59 percent rear, and the car rides on Pirelli Trofeo R tires measuring 255/30 R19 at the front and 325/30 R19 at the rear, gripped by Brembo brakes of 380 mm at the front and 345 mm at the rear. The body structure itself is a steel space frame reinforced with carbon fiber, wrapped in what Eccentrica calls a full carbon fiber reconstruction, with double wishbone suspension front and rear carrying the semi-active dampers already mentioned.
Inside, Connolly leather sits against Alcantara fabrics, anodized trim and exposed carbon fiber, a cabin built to reward the hand as much as the eye. Every owner works directly with the workshop to tailor their own car, which means no two of the nineteen units Eccentrica plans to build will turn out the same. Nineteen is a small number even by restomod standards, and it is what the company has chosen to make rather than more.
When the V12 Roadster stood uncovered at The Quail on August 14th, 2026, it did so without the roof that defined its predecessor, and without, in Mr Colombini's own words, anything left between the driver and the machine underneath.
