Fifteen Years and a Flag That Returns
In 2011, Lamborghini presented the Gallardo LP 550-2 Tricolore to mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, a car that wore the colours of the national flag as a declaration of identity as much as a design choice. Fifteen years later, at The Quail during Monterey Car Week 2026, the Tricolore name returns on the Temerario, Lamborghini's latest High Performance Electrified Vehicle, in a bespoke configuration designed by Lamborghini Centro Stile and finalised in close collaboration with the Ad Personam programme. The occasion is equally significant: the 20th anniversary of Ad Personam itself, a programme that has spent two decades transforming personal vision into physical reality for the brand's most discerning customers. The Temerario Tricolore arrives as the third distinct Ad Personam configuration of the Temerario revealed in 2026, following the two bespoke interpretations presented at Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Together, they form a progressive exploration of how far the model's creative possibilities extend, and the Tricolore, as Centro Stile's own interpretation rather than a client commission, represents the programme's most complete and cohesive statement yet.
Blu Marinus, Bianco Monocerus and the Architecture of Contrast
The exterior of the Temerario Tricolore is built around a bold two-tone composition that uses the Temerario's own design language as its canvas rather than working against it. Blu Marinus Shiny, a deep blue that reveals lighter reflections under direct light, defines the lower section of the body, while Bianco Monocerus extends across the upper surfaces, including the upper sections of the doors and fenders. The division between the two tones follows the rising profile that extends from the front wheel arches across the doors toward the powerful rear shoulders, one of the Temerario's most distinctive sculptural lines, making the colour separation feel as though it was designed into the car from the beginning rather than applied afterward. Glossy Nero Noctis details on the exterior mirrors, wheels, engine cover, rear and upper section create precise contrast between the two primary colours, reinforcing the car's sculptural proportions without interrupting the flow of either surface. Rosso brake calipers provide the third colour note, while a dedicated green, white and red graphic on the bonnet references the Italian flag with a directness that the rest of the exterior's restraint earns the right to carry. The contrasting treatment simultaneously emphasises the Temerario's new design language, the sharp front surfaces, hexagonal daytime running lights, exposed engine and integrated aerodynamic elements, making the colour composition a means of revealing the car's architecture rather than concealing it.
A Cockpit Where Every Detail Has a Reason
Inside, the Tricolore theme translates into a cabin whose material choices are as considered as its exterior colour programme. Nero Ade upholstery is complemented by Rosso Alala contrast stitching throughout, establishing the Italian flag's red as a recurring thread across surfaces and seams. The hexagonal motif, present in the Temerario's exterior design language, reappears consistently through the interior, creating a visual continuity between the outside of the car and its cockpit that gives the overall composition a coherence rarely achieved in bespoke configurations. Dedicated details distinguish the Tricolore as a specific creative project rather than a selection of options. A bespoke silhouette of the Temerario itself is integrated into the rear cabin trim; Tricolore lettering is embroidered on the door panels. Each of these details was chosen as part of a single creative composition developed by Centro Stile, demonstrating how the Ad Personam programme operates at its most complete, not as a palette of available options but as a process in which colour, material, graphic element and craftsmanship are developed together from a single creative intention, transformed into a unified and emotional expression of Italian identity.
920 CV, 10,000 rpm and the Engineering Beneath the Celebration
The Temerario Tricolore retains in full the advanced hybrid architecture that makes the Temerario one of the most technically ambitious super sports cars of its generation. The newly developed 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8, combined with three electric motors, delivers a total system output of 920 CV, with the combustion engine alone capable of reaching 10,000 rpm, establishing a new benchmark in the production super sports car segment for a V8. The result is acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and a top speed exceeding 340 km/h, numbers that remain entirely unchanged by the Tricolore's additional creative layer. That continuity is itself a statement of intent. The Temerario Tricolore is not a visual exercise built on the foundation of a capable car, it is a capable car in its fullest sense, to which a complete and original design project has been applied without compromise to either dimension. In that equilibrium between performance and personalisation, between Italian national identity and Sant'Agata engineering precision, the Tricolore configuration embodies something that the Ad Personam programme has been building toward for twenty years: the understanding that a truly bespoke Lamborghini is not defined by what it adds, but by how completely it integrates everything it contains.
