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Lamborghini Diablo In Depth

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Feb 16, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo by Koenig – Guide

When Lamborghini showed their Diablo Roadster prototype on the 1992 Geneva Auto Show, orders began flowing in, but suddenly Lamborghini decided not to built this convertible Diablo. The customers who already placed their order were refunded, but this wasn’t taken for granted by all of them. Some customers turned to Walter Koenig, a German based…

Feb 15, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo Strosek – Guide

Vittorio Strosek found the original Diablo to be too subtle, so he set out to create a more balanced design he built for some extremely wealthy customers. He removed the front and rear bumper of the Diablo and installed his redesigned units which were much rounder than the originals, the front turn signals were replaced…

Feb 14, 2007

Lamborghini Racetec Diablo Tuning – Guide

In 1999, a German based tuner presented a rather special Diablo, based on the SV-version available from the factory, they created a true race car for road use, much like the Diablo GT which would be presented later by Automobili Lamborghini SpA. The most visible change at the front was the use of small, fixed…

Feb 13, 2007

Lamborghini Diablo GT1 – Guide

During 1996, Automobili Lamborghini SpA contacted SAT in France to design and build a race version of the Diablo to be able to compete in the GT championships, much like the Porsche GT1 from 1997, this was a car that needed to be based on a production car, but with a completely race oriented setup.…

Jun 25, 2006

Lamborghini Diablo SVS – Guide

Automobili Lamborghini SpA had built the Diablo SV-R type for the Phillipe Charriol Trophy series, details on these high-power race cars can be found on our Diablo SVR page, unfortunately only a limited amount of SVR were built in those days, most sources state about 30, and only a handful of these cars were later…

Jun 20, 2006

Lamborghini Diablo Roadster VT-R – Guide

In 1997, Automobili Lamborghini SpA built a one-time special car for a single-marque championship, a Diablo Roadster in the VT-R edition. This car was based on the VT Roadster edition MY1995, but for some reason the race oriented car was equipped with two wheel drive only and used a highly tuned V-12 delivering nearly 600…

Jun 20, 2006

Lamborghini Diablo GT2 (2002) – Guide

Recently these photos were taken at the official museum located at the Lamborghini factory in Sant’Agata, they show us another Diablo GT2 model based on the 6.0 model. At this moment it isn’t known if this car is an evolution of the Diablo GTR model or if it’s based on the VT model, what is…

Jun 7, 2006

1998 Lamborghini Diablo GT2

Apparently Automobili Lamborghini SpA decided to enter racing back in 1998, so they built this special Diablo GT2 featuring a modified engine pumping out over 600 Bhp and having a displacement of 6 Liter, some sources even stated this would be the engine for the Diablo successor but this turned out to be incorrect. This…

Jun 2, 2006

Lamborghini The Malcolm Forbes Diablo – Guide

When the new Diablo was presented to the public back in January 1990, the late Mr Malcolm Forbes was present in Monte Carlo, he actually was Grand Marchall for that occasion. He was so pleased with the Diablo, he ordered one to be finished in custom ‘money green’ over a gold leather interior. The car…

Jun 2, 2006

Lamborghini Diablo VT-R – Guide

A Lamborghini Diablo VT-R started life as a ‘normal’ Diablo VT, but it was build on special demand only, production of this ‘factory custom’ was halted after only 3 cars were built, two LHD and one RHD car. The original intention was to have a production of only five cars, but after the third one…