Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Production Details Emerge: Report

New details have emerged this week of Lamborghini’s long-awaited Sesto Elemento low-volume supercar.

Detailed in the European edition of the Audi magazine, the report confirms that the sinister-looking Sesto Elemento will be a track-only model - with the 20-strong production-run excluded from road use.

Although produced in the precisely same numbers as the Reventón hardtop of 2008 (which was road registerable), the Sesto Elemento’s track-only status will significantly reduce Lamborghini’s development costs by avoiding international safety regulations.

The Sesto Elemento’s all-carbon fibre chassis would have been costly to crash-certify for road use, compared with the Reventón’s Murcielago-based structure.

Another key reason behind the production Sesto Elemento’s track-only status is its faithfulness to the concept, with several design elements apparently not suited to street use.

Expected to be visually identical to the concept, Lamborghini R&D boss Maurizio Reggiani has indicated that the production model will feature a stiffened chassis - designed to improve handling and the car’s behaviour in a crash.