Petrolheads, crack open your piggy banks — Lamborghini has announced that the world’s most expensive supercar is going into production. Just £1.9m will secure you a Sesto Elemento, a car £200,000 more expensive than the previous record-holder, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport. It will be powered by a 5.2-litre V10 engine producing 570bhp, does 0-62mph in 2.5 seconds, has a top speed of 200mph and weighs less than a ton.
Italian-speakers will have a head start in working out how that performance has been made possible. Sesto Elemento means “sixth element” — that is, carbon, No 6 in the periodic table. The chassis, body, driveshaft and suspension components are made of carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic. The ultra-light car will not be street-legal, though, so outings will be restricted to track days.
With just 20 being built, a few billionaires are going to be disappointed. So how else could they spend that £1.9m: a private jet, perhaps? A new striker for a Championship football team? Or a 15,000 sq ft warehouse in Wigan? That should lessen the pain.
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