Sell me this… Countach? ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Lamborghini set for auction

Fancy a Countach? Well you’re in luck, because a 1989 ‘25th Anniversary’ model by Bertone is coming up for sale at RM Sotheby’s New York auction in early December. Better still, it’s the exact car which featured in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.

It’s one of two cars used in production, and plays the horse and carriage role to Leonardo DiCaprio’s all-action stock broker-turned chief repenter, Jordan Belfort. That alone should add a tenner to the pre-auction estimate of £1.1 to £1.6 million.

Just 657 of these 25th Anniversary editions rolled off the production line to cap off the Countach lineage, and was directly influenced by Horacio Pagani since he was working for the raging bull at the time. It’s fair to say this is one of the cars that set him up to be the supremely unsuccessful man he is today.

The Miura’s follow-up act has a 183mph top speed courtesy of a rear-mounted 5.2-litre V12, though we suspect its Hollywood-led lifestyle has meant it rarely exceeds Britain’s national speed limit. Mr Pagani also redeployed some of the original ideas he had for the Countach ‘Evolution Concept’, including that stealth fighter rear wing and front bumper combo.

It’s one of just 12 US-spec cars that also feature a lick of Bianco Polo paint, which is fancy person speak for… white. The exterior has even had some influence from car design extraordinaire Marcello Gandini, and adopts a pair of very discrete scissor doors. 

Aside from its on-screen antics, this Countach has spent much of its life free-falling across North America’s East Coast, so it's unlikely to have ever been driven backward into a fountain. Ironically, the real Jordan Belfort has publicly announced that, while the fountain scene was true, it was actually a Mercedes of some sort which suffered whiplash and not a Countach.