Conceived of as a 50th-anniversary gift to celebrate the brand’s founding, the Lamborghini Egoista’s name could be interpreted in a few ways. Styled as a single-seater concept car, the Egoista’s name was meant to connote that only one person can enjoy it. Housed in the Lamborghini Museum in headquarters Sant’Agata for years since its reveal in 2013, a private collector later convinced Lamborghini to sell him its birthday gift to itself.
The price? A reported $117 million, making the Egoista the most expensive Lamborghini in the world, and leagues ahead of the Lamborghini Veneno, another one-off. It even makes the Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail look like a bargain. Who says 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 Egoista’s edgy, fighter jet-inspired styling was universally panned at the time, with critics worried about the design future of Lamborghini if this was the shape of things to come. On the other hand, the concept was a fully-functioning car, powered by the Lamborghini Gallardo’s 5.2-liter V10 with over 600 horsepower.
With the driver needing to go through a pretty thorough procedure (including removing the canopy hood and standing on the single seat) just to get in the car, one can only imagine that the private collector who had to have the Egoista probably doesn’t drive it around much.
No one even knows who bought it from Lamborghini and where it is now. Is it worth the reported $117 million? Well, they say beauty does lie in the eyes of the beholder.
Update: A reader has informed Luxurylaunches that the Lamborghini Museum personally told him the Egoista was purchased by a collector who lived in Switzerland. By no coincidence, one of the best Lamborghini car collections in the world belongs to Albert Spiess, a die-hard collector of the brand based in Switzerland, who also insisted Lamborghini recreate the Countach LP500 prototype after it crashed decades back. (Thanks Ben)
