A mystery collector bought the rarest and most expensive Lamborghini for a rumored $117 million

This is the Lamborghini Egoista, a one-off concept car that Lamborghini built to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2013.

The idea was to keep it in a museum and not sell it, hence the name Egoista, which is Italian for ‘selfish’.

But rumor has it Lamborghini received the proverbial offer that couldn’t be refused and ended up selling it.

For $117 million, apparently.

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The Lamborghini Egoista was built just because Lambo wanted to have some fun

Lamborghini regularly unveils one-off and limited-edition supercars.

The Countach LPI 800-4, the Ultimae and the Terzo Millennio spring to mind.

But while other concepts are created ahead of the arrival of a production model or as a design exercise, the Egoista was created as a gift from Lamborghini to Lamborghini.

According to its designer, the Lamborghini Egoista is a concept car that ‘represents hedonism to the extreme’.

The ‘selfish’ single-seat setup meant that, to get in and out of the car, the driver needed to remove the steering wheel – like in a Formula One car. 

Inside, the fighter jet vibes continue with a head-up display and a myriad of buttons and switches. 

The engine is 5.2 liter V10, which produces 600 horsepower.

You probably wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at it but the Egoista is actually based on the Gallardo.

Everything from the chassis to the engine derives from the old Lambo’s supercar which, by the way, held the record for the best-selling Lambo in history until the Urus came along.

Does it really cost $117 million?

Over the last few weeks, several sources reported that Lamborghini sold the car to un unnamed collector.

There’s no way to verify this for sure and, if it really happened, it might take years to find out.

This, for some reason, happens quite often with Lambos.

There’s the Invencible (below), a one-off hypercar/concept car that sold for an undisclosed sum, and no one even knew where it was until weeks ago.

Then there’s the Lamborghini Miura SV that mysteriously failed to sell at auction because the auction house cut the auction short.

No reason was given but, years later, we discovered that it was because Lamborghini had stepped in and asked to buy it back for a VIP customer.

Private sales aren’t unheard of, and automakers routinely sell extremely rare cars directly to customers.

That’s what happened with the world’s most expensive car, the Mercedes 300 SLR.

Perhaps one day we’ll get the truth about the Egoista…