A Mere £2 Million Buys You This 'Brand New' Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

With just 20 made, chances to buy Lamborghini’s wild track-only Sesto Elemento don’t come up particularly often. So, when a link to a ‘for sale’ advert for one of these beasts on 6SpeedOnline started doing the rounds, we sat up and took notice.

This particular example has only 12 miles on the clock (delivery mileage), and as much as the thought of buying one of these and not driving it makes us want to find the owner and give them a swift slap across their chops, that does mean this car is essentially brand new. The price? A cool €3,000,000 (£2.1m, $3.3m). Considering the original price for these was €1.9 million, the seller stands to make a pretty tidy profit.

As a reminder of why this car was so expensive, the Sesto Elemento sports a carbonfibre body, chassis, driveshaft and features CF bits in the suspension. Sesto Elemento (Sixth Element in English) is a reference to the atomic number for carbon, such is the scale of the car’s use of the material.

All that results in one shockingly light car: it tips the scales at 999kg, around the same weight as CT editor Alex’s first-gen Mazda MX-5. Before it started rusting. It has the Gallardo’s 562bhp V10 mounted in the middle, so with four-wheel drive traction and such a puny weight figure, that engine allows allows the Sesto to crack 0-62mph in an incredibly silly 2.5 seconds.

Make no mistake, this is about as extreme and visceral as track day cars come. We’re just praying that the new owner actually drives the damn thing…