Like many other F1 drivers, Lando Norris lives in Monaco. In a country where modern day supercars are commonplace, it takes something special to turn heads. And Lando Norris now has the very car for the job.
Lando Norris' cars
The whole time he’s been in F1, Lando Norris has driven for McLaren. That’s meant his line up of company cars has been pretty spicey compared to the usual range of tax-dodging efficient diesels or hybrids available to most normal employees. Infact, he’s had most of the McLaren supercar range as his company run abouts over the years.
Lando’s been seen driving a 570s, 720S, 765LT, Artura, Elva and pretty much every other McLaren road car to have emerged from the Woking-based plant over the last few seasons.
But he isn’t restricted to just driving McLarens. Recently it was unveiled that Norris has commissioned a bespoke, one-off restomod Retro Land Rover Defender. This unique car is a re-engineered classic, with all new components and a roofless body. He can be sure he’ll be the only guy driving one of those around Monaco.
Now the Land Rover is cool. Very cool. But Lando owns something else that blows it out of the water. He owns one of, if not the best looking car ever made.
Lamborghini Miura
The Lamborghini Miura came about in the mid 1960s. At that time Lamborghini had not long branched out from just making tractors to producing cars, and after their initial model the 350GT was in steady production, the young team at Lamborghini wanted to have a go at making something a little more racey.
And so the Miura was born. Named after a reknowned breeder of fighting bulls, the technical name for the car was actually the P400. P stood for the rear engine placement “Posterioire” and 400 was for the size of its 4.0 litre engine.
The body, that beautiful body, was designed by the legendary Bertone styling house. Just 762 Miuras were produced, and Lando Norris now owns one of them.
Lando purchased his car, a ‘base model’ P400, from legendary UK-based Italian car dealer Joe Macari.
The car is in pristine condition, as all of Macari’s cars are, and features a stunning deep blue paint job. The interior has been retrimmed in bright orange which is very fitting for the McLaren F1 ‘papaya’ driver.
It features a classic open-gate manual shifter with a wooden gear knob and that iconic Lamborhini steering wheel with six holes in it, two on each of the three spokes.
On paper the colour combination sounds a little questionable but in reality it works perfectly.
The engine is a 3,929cc (3.9 litre) transverse mounted V12, producing 345bhp in Lando’s P400 model.
In the later models, the P400S and the P400SV, the engine produced 365bhp and 385bhp respectively. But in a car that weighs only 1200kg, Lando’s 345bhp is more than enough for it to still feel fast, almost 60 years after it was built.
Price
We’ll never know how much Lando paid for his Lambo. The advert listing on the Macari website just stated it was £POA which means if you have to ask you can’t afford it.
Classic.com shows that between 2021 and now, six P400s have sold at auction at prices ranging from $995,000 to $2,707,000. After a P400 SV recently sold for just under $5m, Hagerty suggests a concourse P400 is now worth a little over $2m.
With this particular model having been refurbished and finishing in a bespoke colour scheme, I reckon Lando probably paid somewhere around $2 – $2.5 million for it.
So it turns out you can put a price on driving something unique in Monaco. It’s a few million dollars. But unfortunately that price obviously doesn’t get you a very good battery, as Lando found out when he had to be push-started in the Miura by fans.
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