British-Nigerian designer and artist Olalou Slawn has several intriguing automotive-adjacent projects this year. Beyond his collaboration with Formula 1 team Racing Bulls on a one-off British Grand Prix livery, Slawn has also teamed up with Artifaxing on a handmade art piece titled Slawntach, which recently sold for a jaw-dropping sum.

The Slawntach is not a car in any conventional sense. Built entirely from scratch and resembling a playful, distorted homage to the Lamborghini Countach, it sits on skateboard-inspired wheels and carries no mechanical ambition. Instead, it functions as a rolling sculpture, conceived to tour Miami during Art Basel as a mobile artwork. Slawn and Artifaxing fitted it with custom-upholstered seats, a tongue-in-cheek “Slawn Bullet” shifter and a full body of hand-painted motifs, turning the silhouette into a canvas rather than a machine. Despite having no ties to Lamborghini, the piece went viral after Lamborghini Miami reposted it.

Slawn later described the Slawntach as “an experiment,” a kind of cultural Trojan horse designed to test perception. If the public believes it could be real, he asked, does that belief somehow make it real? His collaborator Artifaxing echoed the sentiment, noting that what began as a light-hearted idea soon evolved into a months-long build involving a dedicated team.

Paraded through the city on a Slawn-branded tow truck, the Slawntach became one of Miami Art Week’s unexpected icons and was sold this week for US$333,000.