Is This The World’s Most Expensive Car?

Unless you have a spare million or two sitting in the bank, the car you’re about to see may be above and beyond your new car-buying budget.

Priced at $4M (which in sterling is, A LOT) the Lamborghini Veneno is being hailed as the most expensive modern supercar car ever produced – trumped only by vintage classics such as the Jaguar E-Type and the 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.

Why the unattainable and outrageous price tag? Rather than bake a cake, Lamborghini built Veneno to celebrate their 50th anniversary, which was commemorated with much Italian pomp back in 2013. After the hangovers faded, Lambo’s boffins set to work on what was to be the luxury car brand’s most powerful, ferocious and Batmobile-esque motor to date – the Veneno.

Lamborghini Veneno Front

So, what makes it so pricey?

The Lamborghini Veneno isn’t a car you want to mess with. Veneno is derived from an infamous Italian fighting bull of the same name, which was responsible for goring a matador to death in 1914. The Italians speak of Veneno as a “murderbull”, and the word translates as “poison” in Portuguese. Like we said – don’t mess with this new motor.

Whilst the car isn’t likely to gore you to death in the name of bloodletting, it will at least put the proverbial fear of god up you. The car mines its 739bhp from the bowels of a 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12 engine, and is capable of 0-60 in just 2.8 seconds. Top speed? 220mph.

The car is based on Lamborghini’s multi-award winning and much loved Aventador, but aside from the aggressive dipping profile, the four wheel drive system and the carbon monocoque chassis, there’s little in the way of similarities between the Veneno and its gentler, older sibling.

Lamborghini Veneno Back.

Despite Veneno’s comic-book styling, it’s not designed to look aggressive or frightening, but to provide enough downforce to keep the car suitably affixed to the tarmac. Lambo’s aforementioned boffins went to extreme lengths to ensure Veneno’s unbridled power is at least minimally contained: the front is long and sharp to push the nose to the ground; the car’s bicep-like arches reduce lift by creating a smooth flow of air; whilst the rear fin – which is more akin to a fighter jet than a road-legal automobile – provides lashings of downforce for the rear wheels to do their thing.

Want one? Sorry, you’ll probably never see one, let alone drive one. Lamborghini has built just three of these uber-expensive road-racers, and has selected three lucky so-and-sos to be the car’s proud new owners. But in reality, that doesn’t really matter.

The Veneno was built to be photographed, admired and lusted after from afar rather than physically driven, and that’s what makes it so special.

Like the Countach, Miura and Diablo that came before it, the Veneno looks set to be Lamborghini’s new racy pin-up; fresh daydream material for car fans young and old.

 

Images sourced via Lamborghini Facebook Page . Credit: Lamborghini.