
A $1 Million Gallardo Just Came Back to Life

The Concours at Wynn Las Vegas just wrapped its fifth year — and, organizers say, its most ambitious yet — with a four-day run from Oct. 29 through Nov. 1 packed with rooftop supercar parties, judged competition, and a Sunday procession down the Strip. Headlining a weekend already stacked with Paganis, Bugattis, and Rolls-Royces were two stories built for the history books: a 28-year-old Lamborghini sketch finally made real, and the hypercar world's most secretive builder closing out a three-car farewell.
Vegas' Biggest Concours Yet
The Wynn Golf Club weekend has come a long way since launching in 2022. Presented by Richard Mille, this year's event — the fifth — expanded to 11 competition classes (nine judged, two non-judged specialty) spanning four pillars: Concours d'Elegance, Artistry, Speed, and Hypercars and Supercars. Brian Gullbrants, Chief Operating Officer of Wynn Resorts North America, put it plainly: "Concours at Wynn Las Vegas has quickly become a must-attend event on the global automotive calendar." He called 2026 the company's most ambitious edition yet, pointing to new competition classes, fresh activations, and appearances from influential figures across the car world.
The schedule itself has become part of the draw. Thursday and Friday opened with a welcome reception at Wynn's Intrigue nightclub, followed by Night Shift GT — a rooftop supercar showcase on the resort's parking garage, with Strip views, a live DJ, and a hosted bar. Saturday was the main event: hundreds of rare cars on the Wynn Golf Club lawn for judged competition and new-vehicle debuts, running 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday capped things off with the Tour d'Elegance, sending award-winning and notable cars — each driven by its own owner — down Las Vegas Boulevard for the whole city to see.



Last year's edition already set the bar high: nearly 7,000 visitors came through to see roughly $1.1 billion worth of cars on the grass, including 46 Bugatti Veyrons, more than 40 Paganis, and 230 Lamborghinis, while the companion Broad Arrow auction moved over $13.7 million at an 82% sell-through rate.
This year's show floor backed up the hype. Aston Martin brought a world-exclusive debut, Bentley showed its all-electric Torcal concept, Apollo gave the EVO its North American debut, Hennessey unveiled the new Blackbird, Gunther Werks showed its Brundle Edition Turbo, and Shelby rolled out a new build alongside two historic Super Snakes. Rolls-Royce marked a decade of Black Badge, and over on the Broad Arrow auction floor, a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL crossed the block — a reminder that for every wild new build, the Wynn still makes room for the cars that started it all. But two debuts stood above the rest.
The Gallardo, Reborn
Fittingly, one of this year's new judged classes was "Classic Recreations" — built for exactly the kind of car that headlined Saturday's debuts. CAVËN Atelier, the new restomod division of Miami's Curated — the boutique exotic dealership led by John Temerian, who also founded the Miami Concours and the Countach Rally — used its very first build to launch what it's calling its "Designer Series." The subject is one every enthusiast of a certain age will recognize on sight: the Lamborghini Gallardo.
Not just any Gallardo, either. CAVËN brought back Fabrizio Giugiaro — son of Giorgetto Giugiaro, and the designer who worked the Gallardo's original lines at Italdesign back in 1998 — to reinterpret his own car nearly three decades later. The result, HOMMAGE 26, keeps the roof, glass, and mirrors from the donor car but wraps the rest in new carbon-fiber bodywork: a front end that leans hard into Giugiaro's original 1998 sketches, and a rear he designed fresh for this project. Italtecnica Engineering handled the mechanical work, waking the 5.0-liter V10 up to 540 hp in GT trim or 560 hp in the Performance version — up from the factory's 493 hp — and routing it through a proper gated manual shifter. CAVËN will build 25 examples, with the conversion alone starting north of €900,000 (roughly $1 million).
"It's a beautiful challenge: rather than creating something entirely different, we're evolving an archived concept."
Fabrizio Giugiaro, designer, on reworking his own 1998 Gallardo concept




Pagani's Final Chapter
The second headline belonged to Horacio Pagani himself, who used Saturday's main concours to reveal the Huayra 70 Anima — the third and last car in a hyper-private trilogy built to mark Pagani's 70th birthday, and the first time all three have ever stood in the same room. The Trionfo debuted late last year, the Derecho surfaced at Goodwood, and now the Anima closes out the set in Las Vegas.
Pagani hasn't released official figures for the Anima, but it's widely expected to share the Mercedes-AMG-sourced 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 that powers its siblings — good for roughly 860 hp and 1,100 Nm in the Derecho — paired with a seven-speed manual and the brand's signature exposed shift linkage. True to the Huayra 70 program, don't expect to see one at a public concours again anytime soon: these three were built for their owners, not for showrooms.




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