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Lamborghini Essenza SCV12

Modern Lamborghini has a habit of milking its series-production cars for all they’re worth to create rebodied and mechanically upgraded limited editions. So it’s not terribly difficult to sometimes take a cynic’s view that the company relishes finding easy ways to tap into its richest clients’ hedge funds or crypto accounts rather than developing truly new machines—the type of cars we might remember as vividly as the ones on which Lamborghini made its name.

So we were thrilled to discover the Essenza SCV12 is a long way from being a rebodied and retuned production model. It’s effectively

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