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Rare Lamborghini once owned by 90s music legend to sell for £2.75million – 20 years after famous Top Gear appearance
The petrolhead once took Richard Hammond for a spin in it
A classic Lamborghini once owned by Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay is tipped to sell for a bumper £2.75million.
The Virtual Insanity star owned the red 1972 Miura P400 SV at the height of his chart fame.
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The rare Lambo - dubbed the first supercar - was just one of 150 ever made.
The 177mph motor’s V12 engine allowed it to go from 0-60mph in just five seconds.
The blockbuster auction comes two decades after its famous Top Gear appearance.
Kay, 54 - who boasts a vast car collection - brought it on the show in 2004, taking Richard Hammond for a spin.
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The pop star then said on the show: “This car was so ahead of its time.
“It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing.”
Other proud owners of other Lamborghini Miuras included Frank Sinatra and Rod Stewart.
Kay’s old one is being sold by RM Sotheby’s.
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The listing reads: “It is legend that ‘supercar’ - the title bestowed upon all of today’s highest-performance automobiles - was first applied in print to the Lamborghini Miura by L.J.K. Setright.
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“He never used the word, but he said it in more elegant prose: 'The exultant whoop of a thoroughbred V12 is like nothing else in motoring. It is immediate, urgent, peremptory'.
“The Lambo idles at about 800 rpm and a gentle blip up to 2,000 produced a sort of instant quickening of everybody in the square, like a WO calling parade to attention.
“It might develop 87.5bhp per litre, but from ridiculously low revs it would pull as smoothly and inexorably as a Silver Ghost.
“Clearly this was going to be an astonishing motor car.”
It adds: “In the early 1990s the car was purchased by a collector in Hong Kong, who commissioned the Modena Group to complete a full restoration.
“Afterward the car passed to the noted musician and vintage performance car collector, Jay Kay of Jamiroquai, and in his ownership was featured in a 2004 episode of Top Gear.
“Soon thereafter it was acquired from him by the well-known British collector Michael Cotter.”
The auction takes place in Toronto, Canada on 1 June.
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