Volkswagen received a $9.2 billion (€7.5 bn) offer for its Lamborghini supercar brand earlier this week, but according to the German parent company, Lambo is staying put.
The offer, first reported by Autocar, came from Quantum Group, which promised job assurances for existing Lamborghini employees, and was hoping to share technology with the remaining VW Group brands.
But Volkswagen is adamant that Lamborghini, which only last week unveiled a massive $1.5 billion investment plan, and confirmed it was developing an all-electric fourth model line, is not up for grabs.
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When asked to comment on Autocar’s story, a spokesman for Audi, the VW Group company directly in charge of Lamborghini told CarScoops: “This is not the subject of any discussion within the group. No, Lamborghini is not for sale.”
VW might be trying to throw people off the trail of course, but unlike Bugatti, Lamborghini makes a ton of money for its parent company, and offers more opportunity to share existing Group platforms, so it seems like it really isn’t for sale.
But cheer up, Quantum. We came up with 10 amazing Lamborghinis that are for sale, and would still leave a bundle of change left over to buy Koenigsegg, SSC or Pagani.
1988 Lamborghini LM002
The car that inspired the current Urus, the LM002 – famously dubbed the “Rambo Lambo” by Car & Driver’s Brock Yates – was powered by a front-mounted V12 driving all four wheels through a five speed manual gearbox. This one goes under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s Milan sale in June, where it’s estimated to make €225-275,000 ($274-335,000).
2014 Lamborghini Veneno
There’s an Aventador hiding under the Veneno’s crazy bodywork, but the visual transformation is so radical, you’d be hard pushed to tell until you took a look inside. Lamborghini built five of the V12 coupes, followed by nine roadsters. Shamefully, this one done zero miles, which means that POA sticker is going to be deep into seven-figure territory for what is essentially a brand new car.
1969 Lamborghini Miura Jota
Lamborghini only built one hardcore Jota version of the Miura and it was destroyed in a high-speed wreck in the early 1970s. But a handful of standard cars have been converted to Jota spec over the years to replicated the look and feel of Lambo’s most mythical car. This one started off as a Miura S before being Jota-ised in Japan in 2013. Currently in the UK, it’s yours for £999,995 ($1.43 million).
2016 Lamborghini Huracan GT3
The advert for this full-on Huracan race car says it was Italian GT3 champion three times, and Italian hill climb champion twice – and looking at this video of it attacking a climb in 2019, we can well believe it. The V10 has recently been rebuilt, and freed from power-sapping GT3-class balance of performance regs, now makes 661 hp. It cost €369,000 ($450,000) new, but Quantum’s guys could pick it up for a bargain €240,000 ($293,000).
2014 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
Only 20 of these track-only supercars were built, each stripped right back to just 2202 lbs (999kg) to make the most of their 5.2-liter V10’s 570 hp. Sadly, the measures taken to strip out so much weight mean the Sesto Elemento isn’t road level, but this example’s seller claims this car could be made legal – though the fee to make that happen would of course be on top of the $2.89 million (£2.03 million) asking price…