Sign of the times eh...
From Worldcarfans
There's a bit of a noise regarding the listing of 7 Lamborghini Reventons on the JamesList online luxury goods catalogue. The online community is baffled as to why 35% of Reventons are now being listed as being on sale so soon after the super car went to market. Only 20 units of the dramatic Italian bull were produced, making it a prime prospect for investment purchasing. Off-the-factory pricing was a cool €1 million.

The cars that are being shafted by owners come from all over the world. One is from Dubai, two are from the US and four come from Germany. They range from €1,250,000 (about US$1.59 million) to €1,580,000, (US$2 million) depending on factors like mileage. So you bought it for one million bucks and are now selling it for one and a half times that. That's a nice tidy profit for 18 months of waiting.

A 6.5-litre 12-cylinder powerplant drives all of the Reventon's wheels with its 650hp (478kW) and 660Nm of torque. Lamborghini says it will rush from 0 - 100km/h in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of over 340km/h.

 

Key point here is that Reventons were mostly ordered by dealerships not by final customers, especially in US. This is really Lamborghinis biggest problem now - plenty of inventory ordered by dealers and now stuck for quite a long time. Speaking about Reventon, I am not sure if dealers would be able to move them, with this economy and SV launch, purchasing the way overpriced Reventon is kind of nonsence.

 

They shoulda made 100 of them as special edition cars for around 700K and people would be driving them and enjoying them, not trying to make a profit

 

$700k? They should have just made the 20 and sold them for $100k over sticker.

 

the pic seems to be accurate: the reventon is so "beautiful", it needs to be placed next to a dilapidated building, for it beauty to shine thru

 

Doesn't surprise me that people bought them to be the first, show it off for a while, then try and sell it for a profit...

 

should have been sold for 35% of its original msrp too...

 

I'll pick one up when they're around 100k.

 

All the Reventons were sold period. The Reventons you see for sale now were repurchased by dealers as used or still like new on MSOs. The Revetons sold out new and are now being sold at market value. Dealers did their job selling the cars out new if thats what were are talking about. Reselling the Reventon is another story.

 

Exactly right. Lamborghini really put one over with the ridiculous price tag. Imagine - more money than a Zonda F???? No f'ing way that makes sense. A Veyron, sure, but an LP640 with new clothes? Nope.