- Lamborghini has produced six modern few-off series since 2007.
- Swiss collector Albert Spiess owns at least one example from each few-off model line.
- Spiess cites the Sián Roadster as Lamborghini’s first hybrid model in his collection.
Lamborghini’s “few-off” cars occupy a strange, intoxicating corner of the supercar universe. Built in vanishingly small numbers, they’re less about sales volume and more about rolling ideas: design, materials and technologies pushed to extremes, then quietly fed back into production models.
Now, one of the world’s most dedicated collectors has lifted the curtain on what draws him to Sant’Agata’s rarest creations.
Swiss collector Albert Spiess has been buying Lamborghini few-offs since the modern era began with the Reventón in 2007. Nearly two decades later, his garage contains at least one example of every such model produced - a feat that places his collection among the most significant anywhere.
Few-offs: Lamborghini’s experimental playground
Since 2007, Lamborghini has built six distinct few-off series, often offered as both coupe and roadster. It started with the Reventón, followed by the Sesto Elemento (2010), Veneno (2013), Centenario (2017), Sián (2019) and, most recently, the Countach LPI 800-4 in 2021. Each served as a kind of concept car you could register, testing everything from radical aerodynamics to new materials and electrification.
Spiess says every purchase had a clear rationale. “Every one of them has arrived for a very specific reason,” he said. The Reventón Roadster appealed for its shape, which later influenced Lamborghini V12 models through to Aventador. The Sesto Elemento, his personal favourite, won him over with extreme lightness and advanced carbon-fibre construction. The Veneno Roadster? “A spaceship with an extraordinary design.”
When passion beats logic
Spiess’ Lamborghini story began long before few-offs were a thing. His first purchase was a 1979 Countach LP400 S, followed by a Miura SV and a Silhouette, as he deliberately shifted time away from work to focus on building a collection rooted in rarity, history and mechanical excellence .
Later cars continued that emotional logic. The Centenario marked the thrill of owning something genuinely unique. The Sián Roadster mattered because it introduced Lamborghini’s first hybrid system. And the Countach LPI 800-4? That one came full circle, celebrating the original 1971 Countach prototype, one Spiess himself had rebuilt with Lamborghini Polo Storico support.
Still chasing the first thrill
For all the millions involved, Spiess insists the deciding factor remains simple. “Because every time I become as excited as I did the very first time, when I bought my first Countach,” he said.
For Lamborghini, that’s probably the ultimate endorsement: proof that even in an era of electrification and algorithms, raw emotion still sells, especially when the car in question barely exists at all.
