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A Lamborghini Murciélago built to a genuinely one-off specification is about to test how far collectors will go for the ultimate version of Sant'Agata's last analog V-12 flagship. RM Sotheby's has consigned a 2010 Murciélago LP 670-4 SV, chassis 4015, to its online Sealed auction platform, where it will sell without reserve. RM Sotheby's specialists believe the car, finished in a shade it wore from the factory exactly once, is the last manual-transmission LP 670-4 SV built, and by extension the last manual V-12 Lamborghini ever made.
The LP 670-4 SV, unveiled at the 2009 Geneva show, was only the third Lamborghini to wear the SV badge, following the Miura SV of 1971 and the Diablo SV of 1995. Every one of those cars represented the most extreme, most focused version of its respective platform, and the Murciélago's run-out edition upheld that tradition. Engineers cut roughly 100 kilograms from the coupe's weight and found an extra 30 horsepower through a reworked exhaust, ignition, and variable valve timing, pushing the power-to-weight ratio from 379 bhp per tonne to 422 bhp per tonne. It was also the last Lamborghini built with a steel body and the Bizzarrini-designed V-12 that had powered the marque's flagships since the Miura, making roughly 300 examples the final link to a much older era of the brand. Anyone curious how that lineage started can see it firsthand in Motorious's coverage of a freshly restored 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV, a car that established the template chassis 4015 ultimately perfected.
Even among roughly 300 SVs, RM Sotheby's calls chassis 4015 the finest specification of the group. It is the only Murciélago LP 670-4 SV ordered through Lamborghini's Ad Personam customization program in Marrone Eklipsis, a deep metallic brown that pays homage to the run-out Diablo VT 6.0 SE, half of which left the factory in sunrise-toned Oro Elios and half in this sunset-toned brown. The car also skips the towering Aeropack Wing that nearly every LP 670-4 SV wore in period for the rarer Low Drag Wing, a cleaner setup that both suits the Murciélago's silhouette better and nudges top speed from 209 mph to 212 mph. Inside, chassis 4015 swaps the standard SV's stiff, carbon-shelled bucket seats for wider, more supportive LP640-spec chairs trimmed in Avorio Lilium, paired with a Marrone Janus Alcantara cabin. The most significant option, though, sits between those seats: a six-speed gated manual transmission. Lamborghini built only five Murciélago LP 670-4 SVs with three pedals, with the rest specified with the automated e-Gear system, and RM Sotheby's believes this may be the final example to leave Sant'Agata Bolognese with a stick shift.

Hagerty's valuation tools give a sense of how steep a premium a car like this could command. According to the Hagerty Price Guide, a standard 2010 Murciélago LP 670-4 SV coupe in #3 (Good) condition currently carries a value of roughly $887,000, dwarfing the LP640 coupe's $494,000 and the LP640 roadster's $455,000 in the same condition tier. That gap alone shows how much collectors already pay for the SV's extra power and focus over a standard Murciélago; a one-of-one color, the rarer low-drag aero package, and one of only five manual gearboxes are the kind of factors price guides can't fully capture, and they are exactly why RM Sotheby's is letting the market decide with a no-reserve sale rather than setting expectations with an estimate.
There are a few practical wrinkles bidders should weigh before chasing this one. Chassis 4015 is currently registered in Blenheim, Ontario under a temporary import arrangement and sells on a bill-of-sale-only basis, and because it was built to European specification, it cannot currently be imported into the United States and will not qualify for federal exemption for roughly another decade. Whoever wins the auction will need to either export the car from Canada or arrange permanent Canadian registration, along with all associated duties and paperwork.
Bidding on the Sealed platform opens Monday, August 24, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. EDT and closes Wednesday, August 26 at the same time. For a car RM Sotheby's is calling the most important modern Lamborghini it has ever offered, a no-reserve sale means the final number will be set entirely by how badly the market wants the last stick-shift Murciélago SV in existence. Anyone weighing a bid, or just tracking where the segment is headed, can dig deeper into the wider Lamborghini market through Motorious's recent coverage of a matching-numbers 1968 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 and how its Hagerty-tracked values compare, and can brush up on due diligence with this guide to how to read a classic car auction listing like a pro before the gavel falls.