A limited-edition Lamborghini purposely damaged during the filming of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street has sold at auction for NZ$2.1m – a record for the Italian super car.
The 1989 Lamborghini Countach went under the hammer in Abu Dhabi late last month – one of just 658 ever produced.
The car was featured in one of the 2013 Oscar-nominated film's most iconic scenes.
In the movie, Jordan Belfort, the titular character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, consumes copious amounts of recreational drugs and gets into the Countach after a struggle, ostensibly making it home safely.
Belfort’s actual drive home is then revealed in flashback, with the Italian super car colliding with several vehicles and objects.
The car was used in the actual stunt sequences and surprisingly emerged with minimal damage, so per Scorcese’s direction, additional damage was inflicted using a flatbed truck.
Preserved in the same condition it was in on the silver screen, auction house Bonhams said that it serves as "an undisturbed time capsule of the film's unbridled debauchery and infamous extravagance".
DiCaprio’s costume from the scene is included in the package, along with a director’s chair and clapboard signed by Scorcese, DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, who played Belfort’s second wife Naomi.
The record sale is expected to be surpassed by an undamaged model featured in the same film.
The car, to be auctioned next week in New York, is expected to fetch upwards of NZ$2.4m.
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