Lamborghini Limited Edition 2016
Yes, every Lamborghini is special, but even among Lamborghinis, the following models managed to rise above even the extremes of production screamers.
"These cars give us the opportunity again as a brand to offer our clients something special," said Alessandro Farmeschi, Lamborghini's CEO Americas.
From the three Countaches commissioned by F1 team owner Walter Wolf in the 1970s up to the latest Huracan STO, there have been 14 (or so) specials, one-offs, and limited runs of Lamborghinis that have managed to exceed the factory outrageousness by more than a few degrees. It's never just the paint job or the wheels—these cars have managed to convey a sense of wild urgency beyond that which rolled out the doors in Sant'Agata.
Scroll through and pick your favorites. Then sell the house (and all your neighbors' houses) and commission your own. Belle macchine!
Huracan STO
Lamborghini
"Our cars are by definition special and unique, and this is even more unique," said Alessandro Farmeschi, Lamborghini's ceo Americas.
The Huracan STO is the most recent special-edition Lamborghini, what Lamborghini calls "a road-homologated super sports car." It's inspired by the Huracan Super Trofeo EVOs in Lamborghini Squadra Corse's one-make race series. The race cars have won their classes at Daytona three times and at Sebring twice. The STO in the name stands for "Super Trofeo Omologato," a homologation special version of the race car.
Lamborghini R&D, Squadra Corsa and Centro Stile combined their efforts to transform the street car version of the Huracan into this special edition. Inspired by the race cars, it gets 37% better overall aero efficiency and 53% more downforce over the Huracan Performante. A lighter windshield , magnesium wheels and increased use of carbon fiber throughout knock off 95 pounds. Three new driving modes increase performance, while new Brembo CCM-R brakes stop it shorter. Inside are carbon fiber seats, door panels and even floor mats.
"Here we speak about the buyer who looks for the purest performance, fun to drive, they want to enjoy the drive and the emotion of driving the car. Most of them go to the racetrack because they like using the car. I believe that here we have the perfect combination of all those things that you need to have in a car that is to perform on a racetrack."
Price is an easily affordable $327,838.
SC20 Roadster
Lamborghini
Presented just four months ago, the SC20 (for Squadra Corsa 2020) is a one-off design commissioned by a private individual to their own exacting specifications. It is only the second one-off ever created by the supercar maker's motorsports department, after the Aventador J of 2012. Since it's made for the track only, it wasn't restricted by crash-test standards or homologation requirements. Based on the Aventador V12, the open-top track car has no windshield—and no equal.
"The chief sources of inspiration were the Diablo VT Roadster, Aventador J, Veneno Roadster, and Concept S, and the result is a dramatic combination of creativity and racing attitude," said Head of Design Lamborghini Centro Stile, Mitja Borkert.
The 6.5-liter V12 is tuned to 759 hp, which is routed through a seven-speed gearbox and from there to all four wheels.
"The SC20 is one more technical and styling exercise that associates Squadra Corse experience with Lamborghini design, masterfully interpreted by our Centro Stile based on the customer's wishes, which was the focus of the project during the entire vehicle development and construction process," said Giorgio Sanna, head of Lamborghini Motorsport.
Sián FKP 37
Lamborghini
In addition to a body that manages to be angular and flowing at the same time, the Scián incorporates a groundbreaking hybrid drivetrain. It is Lamborghini's first hybrid, but it ain't no Prius. Instead of a battery pack to store electricity, it uses a supercapacitor, which stores and releases energy much more quickly than a typical battery pack. Combining a 785-hp V12 from the Aventador with an additional 34 hp from a 48-volt motor, the two power sources combine for 819 total hp, the highest ever from a Lamborghini. It is thus the quickest Lambo from 0-60 mph, at "less than" 2.8 seconds.
"Lamborghini's strategic heritage in one-off and very limited series cars is not only a commitment to exclusivity but a presentation of future designs and technologies," said Chief Technical Officer Maurizio Reggiani, at the Scián's 2019 debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show. "With this car, we set ourselves the challenge of creating the best hybrid solution for a Lamborghini super sports car to provide us with the first step on our electrification strategy. Lamborghini is inherently a rule breaker, a challenger, always pushing what is possible to find a better solution. With the Sián we are defining our route to innovation and we are setting new rules in new technologies, instead of just following existing solutions. The result is the Lamborghini Sián, which includes the world-first application of a supercapacitor for hybridization and new materials technology."
All 63 units were already sold at the time of the car's debut.
Sián Roadster
Lamborghini
What was missing from the Sián above? A convertible! Thus, less than a year after the Sián's debut, last July, Lamborghini revealed the Sián Roadster. Sporting the same 819-hp hybrid V12, the roadster gets to 60 in "under" 2.9 seconds, a tenth slower due to the weight of the structural reinforcements required of a roadster. As in the coupe, the Sián roadster's supercapacitor is three times more powerful than a battery of the same weight and three times lighter than a battery producing the same power. The 34-hp, 48-volt motor is incorporated into the seven-speed gearbox and weighs just 75 pounds. And while you can't cruise on electricity alone, you can use it in low-speed parking maneuvers.
Sián means "flash" or "lightning" in the Bolognese dialect of Sant'Agata, and that's about the speed all 19 of these sold out.
Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni
Lamborghini
In 2009 when legendary Lamborghini test driver Valentino Balboni was getting ready to retire, the company didn't want to just give him a gold watch, so it made a special-edition Gallardo to commemorate the man's 40-plus years of service to the raging bull. We should all retire so well.
Balboni was hired by company founder Ferrucio Lamborghini himself in 1967 and, after an apprenticeship doing a few other things, spent most of the next four decades behind the wheels of every major new Lamborghini made.
The special edition was also the only rear-wheel drive Gallardo available at the time, so engineers had to detune it from 560 hp to 550 and recalibrate the drivetrain to keep it from blowing to smithereens under full acceleration. But there's a lot to be said for the more lively and engaging nature of RWD over AWD, especially in a supercar, and Balboni prefers it that way, too.
Centenario Coupe and Roadster
Lean Design GmbH
Italian industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini died in 1993 at the age of 76, but Lamborghini celebrated his 100th birthday anyway with this series of limited-edition one-offs based on the Aventador. The Centenario coupe debuted at Geneva in 2016 and was followed that summer at The Quail in California by a roadster version. Just 20 of each were made, with a starting price for the coupe of $1.9 million.
The pair made a fitting tribute to the great man, with a 759-hp version of the Aventador's V12, at the time the most powerful Lamborghini ever made; 0-62 mph came up in just 2.8 seconds, 186 in 23.5, and top speed was 217 mph. In addition to yellow-trimmed aerodynamic bodywork, the cars sport carbon fiber seats. It's a heck of a tribute to a guy who got his start making tractors.
Reventon Coupe and Roadster
Lamborghini
These were multi-million-dollar shockers when they came out more than 10 years ago. The Reventon coupe debuted at the Frankfurt auto show in 2007 with a 650-hp balanced and blueprinted V12, angular styling inspired by the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, and a sticker price of $1.365 million. Two years later came the roofless Reventon roadster, with 661 hp, 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds, and a sticker shock-inducing MSRP of $1.6 million.
But the big deal with these two models was not just the wild styling and the absurd sticker price. The thing about the first car, the coupe, was that it went straight from the sketch pads of the designers at Centro Stile, into CAD, and thence to production. Lamborghini was able to shave off about four or five years of futzing around that every other garden-variety "car" has to go through before seeing assembly. Of course, it helped that both were based on the already-in-production Murcielago, so most of the bare-bones of the beasts had been built and tested. But still, Lamborghini suggested at the time that production cycles could be sped up based on what it had learned with these two.
Sesto Elemento
Lamborghini
The name is Italian for sixth element which, if you remember your high school chemistry class, is carbon. More specifically, carbon fiber, which makes up just about everything on this limited-edition concept car except the drivetrain. When the car was debuted in concept form at the Paris show in 2010, then-Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said the concept was to signal the start of greater use of lightweight materials in the company's cars. Indeed, the Sesto Elemento had a curb weight listed at 2,200 pounds.
How did they do that? Well, carbon fiber everywhere, yes, but it's also a car for track use only, so there are none of those pesky air bags or any of that sound insulation. There were only ever 20 of these made, each selling for $2.2 million, so you could imagine it was profitable for Lamborghini.
Veneno and Veneno Roadster
Lamborghini
This may be the best way to celebrate a 50th anniversary ever. Try and do this when you and the spouse hit your Golden Jubilee. When Lamborghini celebrated 50 years, it showed off one of the coolest concepts-turned-very-limited-production supercars ever. The Veneno coupe and roadster. After a debut on the deck of the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour, parked between a Hawker Harrier jump jet and AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter, the company brought the Veneno to the 2013 Geneva show and wowed the world press.
Based on an AWD V12-powered Aventador, the Venenos went way beyond even the already outrageous Aventador. With 739 hp the Veneno got to 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds and hit a top speed of 221 mph. Each one cost $4 million, which wasn't a problem for the buyers, all of whom slurped them up as soon as the offer was made. Only three coupes were built and nine roadsters. When one came up for auction in 2016, the asking price was $11.1 million. So it made sense as an investment, too, see?
Aventador J
Lamborghini
When this car debuted at Geneva in 2012, Lamborghini called it "the most uncompromising open super sports car of its entire history," which is saying a lot for a company like Lamborghini. "The Aventador J is a force of nature on wheels, supremely powerful and supremely open." The 691-hp roofless version of the already pretty outlandish Aventador not only has no roof, but no windshield. If you've ever driven anything without a windshield at even street-legal speeds, we'd suggest donning a full-face helmet and flipping the visor down before probing the car's 186-mph top speed.
Like the more recent SC20 roadster, the Aventador J was a one-off, with no hope of production. But it goes pretty far in terms of Lamborghini's definition of the car: "It is an absolute one-off: a one-of-a-kind piece of art."
"With the Lamborghini Aventador J, we have molded our brand DNA into its most definitive form to date," said then-president and CEO Stephan Winkelmann. "This automobile is as extreme and as uncompromising as only a Lamborghini can be. The new Lamborghini Aventador J is the most radical open supersports car of Lamborghini's history. Its name comes from our tradition and combines an unconventional design with technology innovation. Nowadays we are confronted with several regulations that we face in the spirit of challenge. The Aventador J is the proof that, despite the rules, Lamborghini will always make people dream, even in the future."
Honorable Mentions
No, these were not just the cars for which we couldn't get the photo rights. OK, maybe they were.
Miura Roadster
The one and only Miura Roadster debuted at the Brussels motor show in 1968 with a new targa-looking body designed by Bertone and an exposed V12 poking up out back. Lamborghini sold it to the International Lead Zinc Organization, which replaced a bunch of parts with zinc alloys. It was returned to Bertone form by subsequent owner Adam Gordon and saw the light of day at Pebble in 2008 and Amelia Island in 2013.
Countach Walter Wolf Special
Wolf was a successful Canadian oil man who put his money into racing, owning an F1 team for a few years. During that time he used some oil money to keep Lamborghini afloat, and as such was able to commission three Countaches to his exacting specifications.
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Lamborghini Limited Edition 2016
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