What's the news?
Mr Wayne? Mr Bruce Wayne? We have your new car Mr Wayne! Batman's favourite (non-military) car maker, Lamborghini, has confirmed that it's putting the dramatically-styled Veneno concept into production, with one key change - the roof has come off.
Not that this is a convertible mind, because this car does not have a retracting roof - it just has no roof. Expect plenty of sales in California and Dubai. Well, we say plenty. No more than nine Venenos will be built during the course of 2014, and each one will cost €3.3 million, before local taxes.
Lamborghini has said that the car has optimised aerodynamics and chassis to give it handling akin to a racing car, but it is fully road legal. Power, and there's lots of it, comes from a development of the V12 engine found in the Aventador. In the Veneno, it's pumping out a whopping 750hp, which Lambo claims translates into a 2.9-second 0-100km/h run time and a top speed of 355km/h.
It's four-wheel drive, as is the Aventador, and has a five-mode, paddle-shift ISR transmission. Suspension is by F1-style pushrods with horizontal spring and damper units.
There are neat aerodynamic touches too, such as an adjustable rear wing (for when you need to really nail that flat-right on the way to the coffee shop...) and a carbon fibre lip around the alloy wheels that acts like a turbine blade to direct air flow to the massive carbon-ceramic brakes.
Anything else?
The Veneno is entirely made of carbon fibre, from the Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) chassis to the body panels, the seats and all of the interior. Even the high-tech material on the seats (well, the bits that aren't leather) is a carbon-weave. All of which means that, for a V12-engined four-wheel drive supercar, the Veneno is pretty light, clocking in at 1,490kg.