The unique Lamborghini LM002 SUV built for Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei is up for auction. About reports auto.ru.
“The bidding process for the one-of-a-kind Lamborghini LM002 is ongoing on the SBX Cars online platform. The Italian company has built around 300 of these cars, but this is the only one that is reliably known to have a five-door station wagon body. The SUV was built by order of the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, the report said.
It is stated that the car is equipped with a 450-horsepower 5.2-liter V12 from the Lamborghini Countach, one of the standard engines for the model. The car’s mileage is only 1.7 thousand kilometers.
Hassanal Bolkiah is a car collector. According to various estimates, his collection numbers from 3 thousand to 7 thousand. The collection includes more than 600 Rolls-Royce cars, about half a thousand Ferraris, as well as Koenigseggs and champion Formula 1 cars.
It happened before that knownThe home-built Geoff Crossley Special sports car, built more than half a century ago by famed British racer Geoff Crossley, has reportedly been put up for auction at Bonhams.
Crossley spent over 5,000 hours building his race car. The chassis and body were built from scratch by himself. The power system features four Weber carburettors. The engine had both internal parts and, for example, the crankcase changed. The project lasted six years, from 1968 to 1974.
Driver Geoff Crossley was well known to British motorsport fans, having achieved over 40 wins from 200 starts during his career.
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