Lamborghini Drops Details on Production Sesto Elemento
Critically, owners of the Sesto Elemento won’t legally be able to drive it about town. The Sesto Elemento will be a track only affair. Lamborghini says they wanted to keep the car as close to the concept as possible. Getting it conform to road legality regulations across the world would be prohibitively expensive. It would also mean that they’d have to change the way the car looks. Considering how big of a draw the looks are in the first place, I can see why Lamborghini might be hesitant about taking that leap.
If you’re one of the lucky twenty who gets one, you might bemoan the fact that you can’t take it to your local cars and coffee (legally, anyway). The trade-off is that you get to keep that alien spaceship interior. The seats, for example, have to be individually crafted for the cars owner as they’re mounted directly to the car’s monocoque shell. That shell also provides more stiffness than the concept. It’ll also have separate front and rear crash structures just in case things go pear shaped on the circuit.
Street legal or not, it’s gonna be fast. The side effect of that fancy all carbon body is a curb weight of just 2,200lbs. For reference, that’s about 200lbs heavier than a Lotus Elise. Where the Lotus makes due with Toyota sourced four cylinder engine, the Lambo sports a 5.2 liter V10 that pushes 562hp through all four wheels. It’ll dispatch the run to 60 in two and a half seconds and will top out at over 200mph. It’s top speed isn’t the only thing that’s high.
At $2.6 million, the Sesto Elemento is among the most expensive Lamborghinis ever. That might give a collector pause before taking it to the track. It would be a shame for a car with performance like that to stay inside its whole life. And besides, sports cars just look better out on the track anyway.
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