Market Find: The Last Manual V12 Lamborghini Heads to Sealed Bidding

When Lamborghini built the Murciélago LP 670-4 SV, it built a track-focused endgame for the V12 Murciélago line — lighter, more powerful, and, for most buyers, only available with the E-gear automated manual. RM Sotheby's is now offering a car that skipped that memo. Chassis ZHWBE81G0ALA04015 is a 2010 SV finished with a traditional six-speed gated manual gearbox, a configuration the auction house says was fitted to just five examples of the roughly 350-car planned run. The listing goes further, describing this specific car as believed to be the last manual LP 670-4 SV to leave the Sant'Agata factory — which would make it, in RM Sotheby's words, the last manual V12 Lamborghini built.

The color is its own piece of rarity. The car wears Marrone Eklipsis, a metallic brown selected through Lamborghini's Ad Personam personalization program, and RM Sotheby's states this is the only SV finished in that shade. Inside, the theme continues with a two-tone treatment of Marrone Janus and Avorio Lilium Alcantara and leather, Grigio Phoenix contrast stitching, and the more supportive LP640-specification seats rather than the standard SV buckets. Adding to the spec sheet is the SV's optional Low-Drag Wing, a smaller, track-oriented rear wing that RM Sotheby's credits with the car's claimed 212-mph top speed — a notable inclusion given most SV buyers went the other way and kept the larger, more aggressive fixed wing for outright downforce.

Mechanically, the SV's recipe was already extreme by Murciélago standards: a 6.5-liter, Bizzarrini-derived V12 producing 661 horsepower, all-wheel drive, and a power-to-weight figure RM Sotheby's lists at 422 bhp per tonne, thanks to extensive use of carbon fiber and a lighter windshield and rear window. Paired with three pedals and a metal gate instead of paddles, it's the version of that formula enthusiasts tend to describe as the "purer" one, even if Lamborghini itself pushed most customers toward the quicker-shifting automated gearbox.

Provenance on paper is thin but the car's condition is not: RM Sotheby's lists roughly 7,906 kilometers, or about 4,912 miles, on the odometer, and notes the car is being sold on a bill of sale only, with its current home listed as Blenheim, Ontario. There's no ownership chronicle attached to the listing beyond that, which is typical for a car being sold through RM Sotheby's Sealed format — a bidding process conducted entirely online and anonymously, with results released only to the winning bidder and the consignor.

That sealed format is itself part of the story here. Rather than crossing a Monterey or Scottsdale stage, this Murciélago is being sold as a standalone Sealed auction, bidding for which was set to close August 26, offered without reserve. It's a comparatively new sales channel for RM Sotheby's, reserved for cars the house considers significant enough to stand alone rather than get folded into a mixed catalog — and a manual, Ad Personam, Low-Drag SV checks that box on rarity alone before the "last one built" claim even enters the conversation.

Murciélago values have already been climbing as the model ages into full-blown modern-classic status, and manual examples of any late-2000s V12 supercar carry a premium simply for existing in a market that abandoned clutch pedals not long after. A one-of-one color combination stacked on top of a one-of-five gearbox, on a car built at what its own seller calls the literal end of an era, is the kind of overlapping rarity that tends to turn heads well past the closing bell on a sealed bid.