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2005 Saleen S7 Twin Turbo in Lamborghini Yellow Pearl For Sale $599,000

It is number four of twenty in the world. (20 race cars, 20 turbo cars, 37 naturally aspirated cars) 248 miles per hour and 0-60 in 2.8 seconds. (Please be advised this 2 .8 second rating is not obtainable by the common untrained peasant. This car can break loose at any 1000'th of a second, so care must be taken to feather the power during the first second) This car was delivered with 750 horsepower by Lamborghini Dallas in 2007. This is the only yellow twin turbo car built, or in existence. It was featured in USA today, and if you see any yellow twin turbo photos, it is this car. (but of course, every one made is featured somewhere) Car is in perfect condition having never been flooded, burned, wrecked or stolen. It did suffer in transit cosmetic damage requiring resin and paint repair by professional shop. (No parts or straightening) Car does NOT have a salvage title as listed in ebay boilerplate language, but there is no field in the ebay form for RCN marked titles. Louisiana title is in our name, in hand, and we can have it put in your name in five minutes with your simple signature, no hoops. It is noted as the 3rd fastest car in the world, behind the Bugatti Veyron at 1.6 Million dollars, and some other unknown, unavailable car. Having driven and raced hundreds of Lamborghini's and just about every other car in the world, this is hands down the fastest car I have ever been in. Words cannot explain. Obviously, you know this or you would not be bidding. They are not building anymore S7's, so this is it. There are no other turbos for sale, that I know of. The only similar twin turbo (burnt orange color) was at Barrett Jackson Auction 2009 for $412,000.00, used. The MSRP on this Yellow car was $576,056.00, but the most I have seen one sell for is $850,000.00 at the 2005 Italliano Concourso, using partial trade as a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder prototype to Japan (I was not a party to that transaction). I also saw a Maroon S7 at the Mecum auction in Monterey in 2009, but it was not a twin turbo, so I did not watch the sale. Good luck bidding. We welcome pre bid inspections. The original picture of this exact car after construction with Steve Saleen can be seen if you google "Usa Today Saleen S7" . A previous owner of this car has kindly mentioned several of the options on this car which included polished aluminum wheels (which are still perfect), and a GPS. The radio has a 20 grand upgrade with a new dash panel in Yellow after original purchase. Further you affiant sayeth naught. I guess your decision boils down to whether you would prefer a stack of cash in your safe, or the baddest car in the world. .... Steve Saleen is pictured in front of this car on the opening photo in this ebay advertisement. Please note, we are million dollar Titanium Power Sellers for almost a decade with 100% positive feedback on every sale. Never a negative, Never a neutral. So bid with complete confidence.

USA TODAY 2007 Steve Saleen founded a namesake company that builds the supercar Saleen S7, behind him, and turns other automakers' autos into road rockets. ABOUT SALEEN Home: Coto de Caza, Calif. Age: 56. Education: Bachelor's degree in business, University of Southern California. Hobbies: USC football, auto racing. Races won: More than 150. Crashes: Five "significant" ones; never broke a bone. Traffic tickets: None in at least 10 years, though police officers pull him over to check out his cars. Favorite movies: Grand Prix (1966) starring James Garner; Le Mans (1971) and Bullitt (1968), both starring Steve McQueen. Family: Wife Liz, to whom he's been married 27 years; three adult children, all of whom work for Saleen. About the Saleen company Headquarters: Irvine, Calif. Annual revenue: About $100 million. Founded:1984. Employees: Nearly 400, split between Irvine and a plant in Troy, Mich. ... By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY IRVINE, Calif. — Among auto enthusiasts, the name Saleen carries a certain mystique — whether applied to the man or the company he founded. Steve Saleen is the automotive Midas who turned Ford Mustangs and F-150 pickups into high-performance gold. He also produced the $580,000 Saleen S7, a worthy American-built rival to Ferrari and Lamborghini. ... A race-car driver, Saleen decided 23 years ago that he could make a business out of installing racing components in Mustangs to create road rockets with a sizable boost in horsepower, road-gripping thrills and in-your-face looks. From its start on the family dining room table, the privately held company known simply as Saleen has grown to nearly 400 employees. The company says it has about $100 million in annual sales. After seeing it through more than two decades of growth, Steve Saleen sold the business to Hancock Park Associates, a private investment group, in 2003. He continued as vice chairman until May. Last week, Steve Saleen announced that he will be CEO of ZX Automobile of North America. A subsidiary of China America Cooperative Automotive (Chamco), it plans to bring Chinese vehicles to the USA. He isn't abandoning his namesake company. He says he'll continue to support Saleen, including consulting on new products. The company is now in the hands of CEO Dan Reiner, who wants to broaden Saleen's customer base beyond Ford to include other automakers and projects. Though they may have disagreed at times, Reiner says, Saleen has been a worthy partner as "the heart and soul of the company." They share a common passion: "He likes to go fast, and so do I." Steve Saleen, 56, grew up in Whittier, a Los Angeles suburb. The son of the founder of a pet-food company, he earned a business degree at the University of Southern California. He worked for his dad, but his love was cars and racing. While he was driving a Pontiac Trans Ams on General Motors' racing team in the early 1980s, he noticed the slow-poke Mustangs. "Mustang has been one of the iconic cars of all time," he says, but "We were beating Ford on the track." He switched to racing Fords and worked to make his own Mustang more competitive on the track. Other enthusiasts took notice and soon were asking Saleen for help. A business was born. In 1984, Saleen sat down with his wife, Liz, in their dining room and figured out how to start the business with little debt. "I focused on cash flow," he says. "If you were able to get a little bit of credit and turned the product fast enough and were paid on a (cash-on-delivery) basis, you could get a business up and running in a short time." He started with a single blue-and-white prototype Saleen Mustang, which he showed off at a race. His first plant began operation with five workers. Over the years, the business hit some rough spots. One crisis came in the late 1980s when Ford considered stopping production of the Mustang in favor of the now-defunct Probe, a decision it rescinded. Another crisis came in the early 1990s, when the auto industry hit the doldrums. Saleen borrowed money and added some investors. He credits his racing background with helping him grow Saleen: "The lessons learned and speed and accuracy apply to business." American muscle Saleen's cars are known worldwide for pure, hard-driven American muscle. "Steven Saleen is one of the quietest influences in the exotic-car marketplace," says Tom duPont, publisher of the duPont Registry listings of collectible cars. "He is so subtle and low-key, and his cars are just the opposite." Jim Julow, president of the Sports Car Club of America, says Saleens draw respect on the track. "Their reputation overall is very good." •S7. Customizing other automakers' cars wasn't enough. In 2000, Saleen embarked on building its own supercar. "We wanted to build the fastest, highest-performing car in the world," Steve Saleen says. The resulting S7 blazes from zero to 60 in 2.8 seconds. Each S7 takes about six weeks to build. The S7's engine, sitting behind the driver, is so big that there's no rearview mirror. Instead, a video display pops open that shows the view from a camera embedded in the rear of the car. The driver's seat is molded to uniquely fit its owner. The car has become a star. Jim Carrey drove one in the movie Bruce Almighty. So did bachelor Andy Baldwin in this season's run of TV's The Bachelor. The S7 also is racking up successes on the European racing circuit, setting a track record at the 24 hours of Le Mans race in 2001. ... Timing of the moves couldn't be better, Reiner says, because of how the automotive industry is moving in an age of mass customization. The goal is to become a small manufacturer nimble enough to meet the needs of buyers who want cars tailored just for them. Saleen is suited to make limited-production runs of 500 to 1,000 vehicles at a time, which isn't economically feasible for a big automaker. Despite outside owners, the business has remained a Saleen family affair. Son Clint, 35, is controller, while Sean, 34, is in sales, and Molly, 23, manages Saleen's nearby mall store that sells everything from racing jackets to cars. Steve Saleen says his new job will take him "from one extreme to the other" as ZX will work at bringing entry-level Chinese cars to the USA. Looking back, he credits intense focus for growing his first business. "Don't lose your dream," he says. "Everything takes twice as long, twice as much money," as you would expect. "But if you believe in what you're doing and work at it and have the tenacity, you can figure out a way to make it work."