Rare Lamborghini Sián Hybrid Hypercar Heads to Monterey Auction

A Lamborghini that helped push the storied Italian marque into the electrified era is set to cross the auction block in Monterey, California, carrying an estimate of $2.2 million to $2.6 million. RM Sothebys

The 2021 Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 is one of only 63 coupes the automaker built, a figure chosen to mark the year the company was founded. Every example was already claimed by the time the car made its public debut at the 2019 Frankfurt motor show, and each was tailored by its owner through Lamborghini’s Centro Stile personalization studio, meaning no two cars are identical.

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The Sián marked a turning point for a brand long defined by uncompromising, gas-powered performance. It was Lamborghini’s first hybrid, an acknowledgment that alternative propulsion would eventually reach even its most extreme machines. The car’s name means “lightning” in the Emilian dialect spoken around Bologna, while the FKP 37 designation honors the late Ferdinand Piëch, the former Volkswagen Group chairman who steered the company’s purchase of Lamborghini in 1998. RM Sothebys

Beneath the bodywork sits a 6.5-liter V-12 shared with the Aventador, reworked with a titanium intake manifold to produce 785 horsepower. A compact 48-volt electric system adds another 34 horsepower and, unusually, draws its energy from a supercapacitor rather than a conventional battery. Lamborghini said the arrangement was lighter, more powerful and capable of delivering full output instantly, helping the car sprint from zero to 62 mph in under 2.8 seconds.

The design reinterprets the wedge silhouette of the classic Countach while borrowing newer touches such as Y-shaped lighting. Rear cooling vanes open on their own in response to heat, without motors or electronics. RM Sothebys

Delivered new in Missouri, this particular car wears a bespoke Rosso Efesto finish that fades into exposed carbon fiber, with custom options adding nearly $237,000 when new. It showed just 308 miles at cataloguing and previously appeared in a Petersen Automotive Museum hypercar exhibition in Los Angeles.

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