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Now, a 1968 Lamborghini Miura P400 up for auction right now could set a new high-water mark for the most expensive car ever to sell on the site. Any Miura is a blue-chip collectible, a seminal ...
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. The car was the first high-performance production road car with a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout , which has since become the standard for performance-oriented sports cars. [ 4 ]
The car's namesake, Islero, was a Miura bull that killed matador Manuel Rodriguez "Manolete" on August 28, 1947. [3] Lamborghini also produced a car named the Miura, from 1966 to 1973, while the Murcielago was named after another famous individual Miura bull. Carrozzeria Marazzi was chosen to construct the Islero's body.
The example, which underwent a three-year restoration by the marque in 2005, is priced at $1.75 million.
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
This incredible car was the first supercar to take a form over function perspective to design while still providing plenty of power with a massive V12 engine.
The following is a list of production automobiles manufactured by Lamborghini, ... 1966–1968 23 ... V12 3,929 cc 249 km/h (155 mph) Miura: 1966–1972 P400: 275 ...
Lamborghini Jarama Rally and Lamborghini Miura P400 Jota Lamborghini Jarama SVR in the Museo Ferruccio Lamborghini. The Jarama Rally, also known as the Jarama "Bob", is a one-off, race modified Jarama built by Lamborghini's test driver Bob Wallace. It features a modified 3.9-liter V12 engine that was repositioned to sit farther back in the ...