Purchased by a secret collector for rumored $117 million, this is the Lamborghini Egoista, the rarest and most expensive ever made. It is built using radar-absorbing materials found in stealth jets. Its cockpit is inspired by the Apache helicopter, and it accommodates only one person.
Conceived as a 50th anniversary gift to celebrate the brand’s founding, the name Lamborghini Egoista can be interpreted in several ways. With the style of a single-seater concept car, the name Egoista was created to imply that only one person can enjoy it.
Housed in the Lamborghini Museum at the Sant’Agata headquarters for years since its reveal in 2013, a private collector later persuaded Lamborghini to sell it to him as his own birthday gift.
The price? A reported $117 million, making the Egoista the most expensive Lamborghini in the world, leagues ahead of the Lamborghini Veneno, another one-of-a-kind example. It even makes the Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail look like a bargain. Who said money doesn’t talk?
The Lamborghini Egoista may be the most expensive Lamborghini ever sold, but that hardly means it’s the most beautiful or powerful. The bold, fighter jet-inspired style of the Egoista was universally criticized at the time, with critics worried about the future of Lamborghini’s design if this were the shape of things to come. On the other hand, the concept was a fully functional car, powered by the 5.2-liter V10 of the Lamborghini Gallardo with over 600 horsepower.
Since the driver must go through a very meticulous process (including removing the hood and standing on the single seat) just to enter the car, we can only imagine that the private collector who had to buy the Egoista probably doesn’t drive it much.
No one even knows who bought it from Lamborghini or where it is now. Is it worth the reported $117 million? Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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