Here’s Your Chance To Buy A Lamborghini Centenario With Just 69 Miles

When you name a car in honor of your company founder’s anniversary, it had better be good. The fact that this example of the Lamborghini Centenario is expected to sell for $2.5 million suggests that it was pretty good.

Built to celebrate what would have been Ferruccio Lamborghini’s 100th birthday, the Centenario was limited to just 40 examples. This particular model is one of the 20 coupes made and sports an attractive combination of matte black with red highlights on the carbon fiber body.

Based on the Aventador, the special edition model featured a collection of significant upgrades, including an aggressive aerodynamics package that includes a twin-plane front splitter and a racecar-style rear diffuser. The Centenario was also the first Lamborghini to ever be equipped with four-wheel steering, which made it as nimble at low speeds as its aero package made it stable at high speeds.

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Under the hood, its 6.5-liter V12 was tinkered to produce 759 hp (566 kW/770 PS), and it was hooked up to a seven-speed single-clutch ISR gearbox actuated by paddles behind the steering wheel. The Centenario is capable of a 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in less than three seconds, while it will keep accelerating to more than 217 mph (350 km/h).

This model is being sold at auction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and has been owned by just one person since it left Italy in 2017. In that time, its odometer has registered just 69 miles (112 km). RM Sotheby’s, the auction house in charge of the sale, claims that those miles are believed to have been registered as part of its pre-delivery testing, but some Centenarios that have previously come up for sale have had fewer miles on the odometer. Maybe the test driver was just having more fun on the day that this example went to the test track.

Whatever the case, this Centenario is expected to sell for between $2 and $2.5 million when it crosses the auction block at RM Sotheby’s Dubai auction, which runs on March 8 and 9.

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The Auto World

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