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Mogul Toy of the Day: The $2.8M Illegal Car

Sure, lots of moguls have fancy cars — ownership is almost mandatory among the mogul set. In fact, a car has already graced our list of gluttonous Mogul Toys. But while an $8 million Maybach, for example, might be attainable to your average titan of industry, it takes real guts (and money) to buy a multimillion-dollar vehicle that isn’t even legal on the road.

Behold, the $2.8 million Lamborghini Sesto Elemento — a lavish purchase so impractical, it doesn’t even fulfill the intended purpose of a car.

Now, don’t get us wrong, there are ways to play with this Mogul Toy. Small World notes that you could probably drive this thing on a track (yet another mogul status symbol) without getting in trouble. So, there’s an option.

But, considering that the Sesto Elemento doesn’t seem to resemble a typical race car (at least none that we’ve seen, in our limited experience), we must ask: Why would Lamborghini build an unapproved vehicle like this?

Small World explains:

It can accelerate from 0-62mph (100kph) in less than 2.5 seconds and has a top speed of more than 200mph.

But to produce such astonishing speed, Lamborghini has bypassed the normal measures required to make the supercar road legal.

So, in short: It’s a speed issue.

They wanted to go fast, so they went illegal… That sounds like the tagline for the yet-to-be-produced sixth “Fast and Furious” movie.

TAGS: cars | lamborghini | movie toy of the day

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