The Goodwood Festival of Speed has come and gone, and while it allowed us to get up close and personal with several of the latest and greatest hypercars, supercars, racecars, and more, the annual celebration of automotive enthusiasm also has plenty of room for old cars. And when Lanzante gets involved, there's a glorious place in the middle, where past and present converge. A few years back, the outfit took the roof off the McLaren P1; this year, it revealed the fantastic 95-59, and in the future, it wants to make the Red Bull RB17 hypercar road-legal. But before it gets there, it appears that the team at Lanzante may have made another insanely focused and rare beast road-ready: the exceedingly rare, gravity-defying Lamborghini Sesto Elemento.
Making A V10 Ruckus Up The Goodwood Hillclimb
Let's start with what we know. Only 20 Sesto Elementos were supposed to be made (though by some accounts, only 10 ever were), each fitted with the same 562-horsepower 5.2-liter V10 from the Gallardo. Tragically, that also meant Graziano Transmissioni's six-speed automated manual with paddle shifters, e-gear, found its way to Sant'Agata's most advanced car to date, but since this was a track-only car with a target weight of just 999 kilograms (2,202 lbs), shifting like a sledgehammer was acceptable, if not necessarily enjoyed, in the early 2010s. Especially since the all-wheel drive system was miraculously retained. To put that into context, it's like making a Miata lighter than it already is while adding AWD.
Now that we've got the backstory of one of the most extreme Lambos ever made, we want to know exactly what epilogue Lanzante has written to make our protagonist evolve, but all we have to go on are social media posts, including the below video from the official Goodwood FOS account. We've reached out to Lanzante for more information, and while we await their response, just let the gravity of what's happened here this weekend sink in: Lanzante has raised the bar so high and created such extraordinary cars, and Goodwood is such a Mecca for all enthusiasts of automotive excellence, that one of 20 super-lightweight Lamborghini icons got license plates - and most of the world hardly batted an eye. It wasn't even worth a press release, it seems. What a standard has been set.
It has a chassis that rivals Van Gogh's greatest masterpiece, an engine note that contends Beethoven's greatest symphony and a name befitting the most stunning Italian countryside. This is the illustrious #Lamborghini Sesto Elemento by Lanzante. Hang it in the Louvre. #FOS pic.twitter.com/WIBQMtPv35
— Goodwood FOS (@fosgoodwood) July 10, 2025
What Lanzante May Have Changed, Or May Yet
The example seen at Goodwood matches every other Sesto Elemento ever made in most ways, from the matte carbon fiber body sprinkled with red crystal flakes to the polycarbonate slider windows and center-locking wheels (again made of carbon fiber, of course). At the front is a decal license plate on the front splitter of the one-piece cofango (which combines hood and fender into a single piece, something Lamborghini repeated at the rear of the car like an old Miura, too). At the rear, a physical plate has been installed with a bracket, and the (arguably rather gauche) sore thumb of a red transmission cover has been painted more sensibly.
Since the car was spotted on public roads (with turn signals activated!), as seen below, this may well already be the finished article. Obviously, there's not much more about a car like this that can be changed without weighing it down significantly and thus completely altering what it is at its core. Whoever commissioned this surely has plenty of other cars to choose from when they want a relaxing journey with plush leather, a smooth transmission, and air conditioning. When they don't, wow - what a unique way to enjoy the howls of a V10 engine. We'll report back once we know more.
@jonnys.nb Road legal Sesto Elemento (featuring Zonda R noises 🫣) #lanzante #lamborghini #sestoelemento #cars #cartok #supercar #hypercar #goodwood #fos
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