Only three Venenos will be sold. If you have your heart set on buying one, we have some really bad news: all three have already been spoken for even before they've been built.
The 750 horsepower Veneno is largely based on the Lamborghini Aventador, a 691 horsepower car that sells for about $400,000. Like the Aventador, the Veneno has a 6.5-liter V12 engine, a seven speed transmission and full-time all-wheel-drive.
The Veneno's exterior is designed for optimum aerodynamics, according to Lamborghini. The front end, for instance, is designed to work as a large aerodynamic wing, to keep the car pinned to the earth during high-speed driving.
The Veneno has the same scissor-opening doors as the less expensive Aventador.
The Veneno on display in Geneva is accented in all three colors of the Italian flag: white, red and green. This is the prototype car, though, and there are no plans to sell it.
The three cars being built for customers will each be trimmed in one of those three colors.
Lamborghini usually names its cars after fighting bulls. The Veneno, Spanish for venom, was named for what Lamborghini calls one of the fastest bulls in the history of bullfighting. Veneno's name became immortalized in 1914 when he gored a toreador to death in the arena in Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain.
