The Last of the Analogue Bulls

Some cars mark the end of a chapter; chassis 4015 marks the end of the book. This 2010 Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670-4 SV in Marrone Eklipsis is the most desirable example of the model ever built — one of just five LP 670-4 SVs fitted with the six-speed manual gearbox, and one of only three specified with the low-drag wing. It is offered through Sealed — where every bid is submitted privately and simultaneously, with no visibility of what rivals are prepared to pay until the window closes.

It is believed to be the last manual LP 670-4 SV to leave the factory, and quite possibly the last manual V-12 Lamborghini built. Bidding opens Monday, 24 August 2026 and closes Wednesday, 26 August 2026 — a narrow window to secure what many consider the single most important modern Lamborghini in existence.

A Swansong, Perfected

Launched in 2001 as Lamborghini's first flagship under Audi ownership, the Murciélago paired a 6.2-litre V-12 descended from the Bizzarrini engine of the 1960s with a shape penned by Luc Donckerwolke that has aged into one of the defining supercar silhouettes of its generation. The 2006 LP 640 update brought more displacement and power, but it was the LP 670-4 SV, unveiled in Geneva in 2009, that pushed the platform to its natural limit — and, as it turned out, its final form.

Only the third Lamborghini to wear the SV badge, following the Miura SV of 1971 and the Diablo SV of 1995, the LP 670-4 SV shed 100 kilograms and added 30 horsepower through a reworked exhaust, ignition, and valve-timing package, alongside a stiffer suspension and a bodywork revision engineered purely for grip. The result was a power-to-weight figure that jumped from 379 to 422 bhp per tonne. It was also the last Lamborghini built with a steel body and the last to carry the Bizzarrini-derived V-12, closing out a lineage that ran unbroken from the Miura.

One of One

Roughly 300 examples of the LP 670-4 SV were built, and within that already-exclusive run, chassis 4015 stands alone. Specified through Lamborghini's Ad Personam bespoke programme, it is finished in Marrone Eklipsis — a deep, metallic brown that nods to the twenty-one run-out Diablo VT 6.0 SE cars finished in the same shade to represent "sunset," paired with twenty-one Oro Elios cars representing "dawn." This is the only LP 670-4 SV known to have left Sant'Agata Bolognese in the colour, making its exterior specification unrepeatable by definition.

The detail choices compound from there. Where most SVs wore the aggressive Aeropack wing that came to define the model's silhouette in period photography, chassis 4015 was ordered instead with the low-drag wing — fitted to just three examples, chosen here for its visual restraint and a genuine two-mile-per-hour gain in top speed. Inside, rather than the fixed-back carbon race seats criticised for comfort on the run-out SV, this car carries the wider, more supportive LP640-specification seats, trimmed in Avorio Lilium with Grigio Phoenix stitching against a Marrone Janus cabin — a pairing that favours daily usability without diluting the car's intent.

The most consequential specification, though, sits between those seats: a six-speed gated manual gearbox, fitted to just five known LP 670-4 SVs against a production run overwhelmingly delivered with Lamborghini's E-Gear automated system. It is believed to be the last manual example to leave the factory — and, by extension, the last manual V-12 Lamborghini built. Where the E-Gear cars trade on outright speed, the gated manual restores the mechanical dialogue between driver and machine that defined the Miura SV and Diablo SV before it, and it is this, more than any single option on the build sheet, that separates chassis 4015 from its siblings.

With roughly 7,900 kilometres recorded from new, the car presents as close to its factory state as any surviving example, its specification sheet reading less like an options list and more like a deliberate act of curation — one Ad Personam decision after another, each pointed toward the same outcome.

The Measure of an Icon

What makes chassis 4015 remarkable is not any single figure but the accumulation of them: a one-off colour, a rare aerodynamic treatment, seats chosen for the road rather than the track, and a gearbox that all but disappeared from the model's final production year. Individually, each is a footnote. Together, they describe a car built without compromise.

The Murciélago closed out an era before turbochargers, hybrid assistance, and electronic intervention reshaped the supercar entirely — the last Lamborghini flagship to ask nothing of the driver but commitment. The LP 670-4 SV was its final word, and chassis 4015, in this specification, is very possibly the definitive expression of that word. As landmark cars from this period increasingly disappear into long-term private collections, Sealed's three-day window may be the last chance anyone gets to secure it, before it too goes quiet.