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Lamborghini Sian

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2021 Lamborghini Sian FKP 37

Offered by Bring a Trailer Auctions | March 2025

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The Sian FKP 37 is another wild, limited-production supercar from Lamborghini. It’s based on the Aventador (as were the Veneno and Centenario before it… and the new Countach after it). It was Lambo’s first take on a hybrid.

The powertrain consists of the Aventador’s 6.5-liter V12 that makes 774 horsepower. There is also a 34-horsepower electric motor integrated into the gearbox for a combined output of 808 horsepower. The car can apparently get to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds and tops out at 208 mph.

FKP 37 is a reference to Ferdinand Piech, the VW Group head honcho, and his birth year. They built 63 Sian coupes (and 19 roadsters) – in reference to 1963, the year Lamborghini was founded. This particular car also has 63 miles on it. Bidding is already over a million, and it will keep climbing. Click here for more info.

Zonda F

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2006 Pagani Zonda F Coupe

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Paris, France | February 2025

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The Pagani Zonda debuted in 1999, and one-off variants still pop out of the factory today. In 2005, the company launched the Zonda F, which was named in honor of Juan Manuel Fangio. The car was the most-different variation of the Zonda theme up to that point.

It was powered by the same 7.3-liter Mercedes-Benz-sourced V12 from the Zonda S that was enhanced to make 594 horsepower in F spec. Zero to 60 passed by in 3.4 seconds on the way to a claimed top speed of 214 mph.

An F Roadster premiered a year later, with just 25 examples of both body styles produced. This car is #16 amongst the coupes, and it now has an estimate of $10,000,000-$13,000,000. Click here for more info.

Huayra R

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2022 Pagani Huayra R

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Paris, France | February 2025

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Pagani launched the Huayra in 2011. And since that time they’ve continued to drum up slightly altered versions. Ten years in, they debuted the Huayra R, which is a track-focused version that is not street legal.

They intend to build 30 of them, and this is number five. Production is ongoing. We’ll see how long it takes them to get to 30… or if they throw in the towel and debut a different track version instead.

Power is provided by a 6.0-liter V12 that makes 850 horsepower. It has exposed carbon-fiber bodywork and weighs just 2,300 pounds. This car has had one owner and has been used for just 121 miles. It has an estimate of $2,950,000-$3,400,000. More info can be found here.

Bugatti Centodieci

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2022 Bugatti Centodieci

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Paris, France | February 2025

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Bugatti doesn’t like to design new cars (neither does Lamborghini… must be a Volkswagen thing). Instead they design one car and they keep producing new “models” with different names that are essentially the same car with some different exterior bits glued on.

That’s what we have here. Based on the Chiron, the Centodieci is a tribute to the EB110 of the 1990s – which was made by an entirely different, pre-VW Bugatti company based in Italy. It has that straked front grille and those little dots on the sail panels. Money, please.Power is from a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 rated at 1,578 horsepower. Top speed is limited to 240 mph.

This car is number six of 10 produced. They cost $10 million new. Which is kind of a straight-up rip-off. But if you’re going to flip one after a few years you’ll make a quick buck. The estimate here is $10,500,000-$16,000,000. More info can be found here.

Koenigsegg CCXR

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2006 Koenigsegg CCXR

Offered by Bonhams | London, U.K. | December 2024

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Koenigsegg: Christian von Koenigsegg’s insane Swedish auto manufacturer has been around for 30 years now, building some of the world’s fastest cars.

CCXR: the CCR launched in 2004 and was clocked at 241 mph. The 245-mph CCX arrived in 2006. And the CCXR debuted a year later. Just nine examples were produced through 2009. The biggest thing differentiating the CCXR from the CCX is that the twin-supercharged 4.7-liter V8 in the “R” model was modified to run on E85 or E100 ethanol. Output was rated at 1,018 horsepower. The claimed top end was 249 mph.

This car: was the first production CCX. It has had one owner since new and was converted to a CCXR in 2014. So maybe there are now 10 CCXRs running around? The estimate here is $1,800,000-$2,300,000. Click here for more info.

Koenig C62

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1991 Koenig C62

Offered by Broad Arrow Auctions | Monterey, California | August 2024

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Whoa! What are the odds that there are both a Schuppan 962CR and a Koenig C62 both available during the Monterey car auctions this year. Maybe someone will show up in a Dauer 962 and complete the holy trinity of road-legal Group C cars.

Koenig Specials was actually the first to make a road car out of Porsche’s all-conquering 962 prototype race car. Koenig made some wild cars in the ’80s, and they raced some 962s as well. So we had to know this was coming.

This started out as a spare 962 chassis but had to design a new composite body to pass German road regulations, but the 962 silhouette is there. The engine is a turbocharged 3.4-liter flat-six that was detuned to 750 horsepower. It would do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and topped out around 217 mph. They wanted to make 30 of these, but ended up only building three, as it cost around $2.5 million in 2024 dollars.

Not shockingly, this car spent quite a lot of time in Japan, where they are famous for street driving cars like this. It now has an estimate of $650,000-$850,000, which seems kind of low. More info can be found here.

Another Chiron

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2023 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Monterey, California | August 15-17, 2024

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Third Tuesday in a row we’ve featured some late model Bugatti. The problem is there’s just so damned many of them, with all of their special editions and slightly more-powerful versions. The Chiron entered production in 2016 and wrapped in early 2024. Across all variants, 500 are said to have been built.

In 2019, the company launched the Chiron Super Sport 300+. They built 30 of those, and although speed limited, sans limiter they were supposedly capable of 300 mph. In 2021, Bugatti launched the not-all-that-dissimilar Chiron Super Sport. It was mechanically similar to the 300+ but had a better-trimmed interior and a painted exterior (instead of bare carbon fiber).

The engine is a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 rated at 1,580 horsepower. The top speed was limited to 273 mph. Something like 80 of these were made, and the very last Chiron built was of this spec. This one has an estimate of $3,750,000-$4,250,000. More info can be found here.

Chiron Sport Noire

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2021 Bugatti Chiron Sport Noire

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Monterey, California | August 15-17, 2024

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The “Sport” version of the Bugatti Chiron debuted in 2018, about two years after the base Chiron went on sale. The Sport shared the base car’s mechanicals: a 1,480-horsepower, quad-turbocharged, 8.0-liter W16. What differentiated it was it’s “track focus.” It was about 40 pounds lighter… on a two-ton car. So a rounding error. But hey, they got to charge more.

The Noire was an available package that could be had on the Chiron or Chiron Sport. It specified either an exposed carbon-fiber body or a carbon fiber body with a matte black finish, which is what this car has. The edition was to celebrate the Bugatti Type 57SC Coupe Aero of 1936.

Only 20 cars would be built this way, split however they were sold between Chiron/Chiron Sport. This car now has an estimate of $3,300,000-$3,800,000. Click here for more info.

Veyron Soleil de Nuit

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2010 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Soleil de Nuit

Offered by RM Sotheby’s | Tegernsee, Germany | July 2024

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I’m beginning to think that every Veyron was a “one-off.” Veyron owners must be like old Mustang owners who live and die by their Marti reports that boil down their car’s combination of colors and options to be “the only one like it made.” In this case, this Grand Sport (or targa version) is dubbed “Soleil de Nuit,” which is French for “night sun.” And it is a “one-off”… which I think comes to the fact that it has unique colors.

The car debuted at the 2009 Dubai International Motor Show with polished aluminum lower panels and Black Blue Metallic uppers over Burnt Orange leather. It was originally owned by the Kuwaiti Royal Family and was purchased by its current German owner in 2016.

Power is provided by a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 that was rated at 987 horsepower. Even with the roof removed this car can do 229 mph. It now has an estimate of $1,650,000-$2,150,000. Click here for more info.

Touring Aero 3

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2015 Touring Aero 3 Coupe

Offered by Bonhams | Monaco | May 2024

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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera has been around since the 1920s and became quite famous in the 1930s and ’40s with their coachbuilt bodies. Touring would later body some of the most famous Ferraris, Aston Martins, Maseratis, and Lamborghinis of the 1950s and 1960s. They closed up shop in 1966.

In 2006, the company was resurrected under new ownership and started producing limited-run vehicles based on existing cars. One such vehicle is this, the Aero 3. It’s based on the Ferrari F12berlinetta. It shares the F12’s 730-horsepower, 6.3-liter V12. This particular car utilized a 2015 F12 as a starting point and was converted by Touring to Aero 3 spec in 2020.

These are limited-run cars. A maximum of 15 Aero 3s will be built, but it’s unclear how many have been completed thus far (or if they will ever even get to 15). It has an estimate of $640,000-$960,000. Click here for more info.

Update: Not sold.