CURATED and RM Sotheby’s Set to Break Lamborghini Records in Monterey

Four Lamborghinis. One auction house. Four lot numbers in a row: 359, 360, 361, and 362. A once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase four carefully consigned Lamborghinis will present itself during Monterey Car Week as CURATED team up with RM Sotheby’s to present Curated x RMS Present | Only Original Once. 

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The cars span 31 years of Lamborghini's history. Starting with a 1979 Countach LP400 S Series I. Ending with a 2010 Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670-4 SV. Between them these four cars represent special moments from Lamborghini’s history.

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All four sell on Saturday evening, August 15, 2026. The final day of RM Sotheby's Monterey Car Week auction. It's also one of the last events of Monterey Car Week. The week officially finishes the next day with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which marks its 75th anniversary this year. Monterey Car Week is widely considered the auction world's biggest stage. Five major auction houses run sales across the same ten days. Last year those sales combined for more than 430 million dollars.

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For collectors trying to plan a week already packed with previews, tours, and cocktail hours, these four lots are worth building a schedule around. Below is a closer look at each car.

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1979 Lamborghini Countach LP400 S Series I by Bertone, Lot 361

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Estimate: $2,200,000 to $2,600,000

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Let’s start with the car that arguably invented the modern supercar silhouette. The Countach debuted at the 1971 Geneva Salon and reached full production in 1974. Bertone's Marcello Gandini penned the shape: a low, angular wedge with scissor doors that had never been seen on a road car before. By 1978, Lamborghini had widened the wheel arches and lowered the stance. The updated version was called the LP400 S, and it looked even more aggressive than the original wedge that inspired it.

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This particular car, chassis 1121086, is one of just 50 first-series LP400 S examples built, out of 238 total. First-series cars carried small details later dropped from the model: 45mm Weber carburetors, compact Stewart-Warner gauges, and smooth Campagnolo Bravo wheels. Collectors tend to seek these details out specifically, since later series simplified or changed most of them.

John Temerian, CURATED Founder & CEO, commented: “The S1 is considered by marque experts as the most rare and coveted Countach model in existence. Bravo wheels. Low body. Rare. Chassis #1121086 may be the finest example on earth. A time capsule from 1979. This benchmark Countach has never been publicly shown, never been seen, and carries just 1,120 documented miles from new. Delivered new to its first owner, a larger-than-life insurance mogul, and imported through Ameritech. He insisted the DOT side marker lights were not drilled into the aluminum fenders, preserving the car exactly as it left the factory. It remained perfectly preserved into the 1990s. Original lacquer paint. Original interior. Original Pirelli P7 tires. This may be the best preserved Countach we have ever encountered.”

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RM Sotheby's calls it one of the best-preserved first-series LP400 S examples known to exist, and the mileage supports that claim.

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1991 Lamborghini Diablo, Lot 362

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Estimate: $550,000 to $700,000

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Lamborghini's ownership changed hands in the middle of developing the Countach's replacement. Chrysler acquired the company in April 1987. That was about halfway through the new car's five-year development cycle. Chrysler's own design studio ended up reworking parts of Marcello Gandini's original shape before the car reached production in 1990. The result was named Diablo, after a famously aggressive fighting bull. It kept Gandini's basic wedge shape but softened the edges just enough to feel modern for its era. Chrysler's team also reworked the cabin, making it feel less spartan than the Countach's had been.

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Under the skin sat a 5.7-liter V12 with 48 valves, producing 485 horsepower. That was enough for a sub-4-second run to 60 mph and a top speed north of 200 mph. This particular car, chassis LA12251, was the 251st Diablo built. It's one of only six closed-roof, rear-wheel-drive examples finished in Bianco white paint over a Champagne leather interior. That's a combination that rarely surfaces at auction. The car shipped to Lamborghini Canada in Calgary in July 1991, making it one of the first Diablos to reach the country. It sold new from Lamborghini of Vancouver in April 1992.

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Its first owner held onto it for 16 years. In 2008, a respected Canadian collection acquired the car, when the odometer read just 1,262 kilometers. Mileage stayed minimal from there. Today the car shows 1,349 kilometers, or about 838 miles. Its paint and interior remain original, right down to the Alpine stereo with its cassette deck. That's a small detail that dates the car as clearly as anything else about it.

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2003 Lamborghini Murciélago 40th Anniversary, Lot 360

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Estimate: $850,000 to $1,200,000

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By the early 2000s, Lamborghini belonged to the Volkswagen Group. The Murciélago, released in 2001, was the first all-new Lamborghini model built entirely under that ownership. It was also the first Lamborghini engineered with all-wheel drive from the very start of development. Engineers built on both the Diablo's late-stage AWD work and Audi's expertise in the area. Its signature bat wing cooling flaps deploy automatically at speed. They debuted on this model and carried forward into later Lamborghini flagships. The carbon-fiber body, wrapped around a tubular steel frame, also set the template Lamborghini would follow for years afterward.

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In 2003, Lamborghini marked its own 40th anniversary as a company. It did so the way it had marked past milestones, with a limited-run special edition. The Countach 25th Anniversary and Diablo SE had come before it. Just 50 Murciélago 40th Anniversary cars were built. Each was finished in a three-layer pearl paint called Verde Artemis. Carbon fiber trimmed the upper door molds and the pillar that covers the gas cap. Inside, the two front seats don't match on purpose: Grigio Syrius perforated leather on the driver's side, smooth black leather on the passenger's side, both with white inserts.

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John Temerian described this car: “Unveiled in Frankfurt, 2001. A V12 Supercar that redefined an era. Since the beginning, the Murciélago has lived in Curated’s DNA. Over 60 exceptional examples documented. Stewarded. Preserved. This is a very special 2003 Lamborghini Murcielago 40th Anniversary, 50 of 50 examples produced for the world. It does not get much better than this!”

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This particular car is number 50 of 50, the last one built, and one of only 19 sent to North America. A single owner, the President of Lamborghini Toronto, held it from 2003 through 2020. It shows roughly 6,700 miles at cataloguing, following a recent major service. That's an unusually low mileage figure for a car with 17 years under one owner. It points to a car that spent most of its life in a garage rather than on the road.

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2010 Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670-4 SV, Lot 359

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Estimate: $1,750,000 to $2,250,000

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The SV closes out the Murciélago's run, and it does so at full volume. Lamborghini unveiled it at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. It was only the third car ever to carry the Super Veloce badge, a nameplate reserved for the brand's most extreme performance variants. Engineers cut 220 pounds through carbon fiber body panels and a new exhaust system. They then added 30 horsepower to the 6.5-liter V12 through revised timing and intake work. The result: 0 to 60 mph in about 3 seconds, a 212 mph top speed, and 15-inch carbon-ceramic brakes to rein all of it back in.

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Lamborghini planned 350 examples of the SV. Only around 165 actually left the factory, as economic conditions cooled demand at the time. That makes this car rarer than its original production run suggests. It's part of why SV values have held up so well since. This specific example, completed at the factory in September 2009, has had just one owner from new. It shows 791 miles at cataloguing, and this sale marks the first time it has ever come up for public sale.

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It's finished in Nero Aldebaran black, one of only eight US-market SVs in that color. It also carries the smaller duct-tail spoiler rather than the more common Aeropack wing, a configuration just three US cars received. Inside sits a black Alcantara interior with yellow contrast stitching throughout. It comes complete with its original books, tools, and window sticker. That's the kind of paper trail that matters as much as the car itself to serious buyers.

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The Lineup at a Glance

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The table below lines up all four cars side by side, for anyone deciding which lot to watch first.

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The oldest car in the group carries the highest estimate, and the newest carries the second highest. Rarity and originality are driving these numbers more than age is. The Countach's fifty-car first series and near-untouched condition push its estimate above a car built three decades later. Mileage tells a similar story. Three of the four cars show fewer than 1,200 miles at cataloguing. 

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Auction Details and How to Bid

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All four cars go under the hammer as part of RM Sotheby's Monterey sale. Previews start Wednesday, August 12, at the Monterey Conference Center, a short walk from downtown Monterey and Fisherman's Wharf. Sale days run Thursday, August 13 through Saturday, August 15. These four lots, numbered 359 through 362, are scheduled for the Saturday session, the auction's final day.

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Monterey Car Week itself stretches from August 7 through August 16 this year, with more than 35 automotive events across the region. Last year's auction week set records across the board. RM Sotheby's alone posted 14 individual auction records. That total included a 2025 Ferrari Daytona SP3 that sold for 26 million dollars, a record for the most valuable car ever sold for charity. If recent years are any guide, this year's sale should draw a full room. Pebble Beach marking its 75th Concours d'Elegance the same week won't hurt attendance either.

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Beyond the auction block, the week is packed with concours events, tours, and marque gatherings across Carmel-by-the-Sea, Pebble Beach, and the wider Monterey Peninsula. Serious collectors tend to build a full itinerary around the sale rather than treat it as a single stop.

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Curated will be in Monterey throughout the week, hosting guests at our own house. Anyone interested in bidding on any of the four cars can register directly through RM Sotheby's. You can also reach out to us directly for details on the cars, the sale process, or the week's schedule.

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Closing Thought

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It's Lamborghini's V12 flagship line, told across three different owners. Gandini's original wedge comes first, then a car reshaped under Chrysler. The Volkswagen Group's first from-scratch Lamborghini follows, and its most extreme send-off closes things out before the Aventador took over. Plenty of collections lean into a single model or a single era. This one happens to cover three ownership chapters in a single Saturday session.

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Whichever car ends up in a new garage after August 15, the ownership history behind it is genuinely hard to find twice: single or near-single ownership and mileage low enough to raise eyebrows. That combination doesn't come around on every Monterey docket!

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