1998 Lamborghini Diablo SV Roadster, en enhjørningtyr, går på auktion - Autoblog

1998 Lamborghini Diablo SV Roadster, en enhjørningtyr, går på auktion – Autoblog

Tidsstempel: 13. december 2023 kl. 5:48
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Lamborghini lavede kun to Diablo SV Roadsters, og RM Sotheby’s is putting this one up for sealed auction running December 13-15. It’s not only a rarity, it’s a throwback to a time for bare 23 år siden at folk, der var der, skal gøre en indsats for at huske. En tid, hvor Lamborghini knapt solgte; Chrysler put den Lamborghini Diablo på markedet i 1990, Audi tog det ud af markedet i 2001, Lambocars sætter hele Diablo køre over those 11 years at around 2,500 cars including prototypes and factory specials. Today’s Lamborghini moved more than double that number in the first half of this year. The products back then also weren’t all that good; yes you could enjoy them, but you were going to sweat and work for it, and a yellow example was driven only by a tycoon or the loosest of cannons. This SV Roadster in Giallo over Nero “Torpedo” Alcantara with yellow piping has undoubtedly seen more pearls clutched than Oyster Bay. 

I 1995, lige efter Chrysler solgte det italienske outfit, lancerede Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster, en cabriolet udgave af den firehjulstrukne Diablo VT, og Super Veloce (SV) Coupe, en tilbagetrukket bagkører med mere kraft fra 5.7-liters V12 end i standard Diablo VT. De nye malaysiske og indonesiske ejere ønskede at lokke flere amerikanske købere, så de finansierede udvikling af en SV Roadster at være en lettere, lettere RWD-version af AWD VT Roadster. Tre år senere blev en Pearl Orange SV Roadster udstillingsbil udstillet på Geneva Motor Show i 1998. USA forhandlere ville have bilen. De malaysiske og indonesiske ejere solgte dog Lamborghini til Audi samme år, og Audi aflyste alle baghjulstrukne projekter.

A Milanese Lamborghini dealer asked Lamborghini’s CEO to make one more example; the CEO agreed. Having created market demand then stiff-armed it, Lamborghini dealers and distributors in various regions removed the AWD system from some VT Roadsters to create something like an SV Roadster. However, the SV Roadster show car and the example for the Milanese dealer are the only two factory-official SV Roadsters in existence. 

This one’s been in the hands of four European collectors and shows 42,842 kilometers (26,621 miles) on the odo. Its V12 makes 530 hestekræfter og 446 pund-fods drejningsmoment. Masser af spendy muligheder på denne, inklusive udsat kulfiber til tag- og indsugningsblade, den valgfrie bagvinge også i blotlagt kulfiber, frontaffjedringens løftesystem og sportsudstødningen. Den manuelle gearkasse kom som standard.

The car comes with every accessory — the original Alpine stereo, original owner’s manuals and garanti bog, servicebogen, der viser dens seneste pleje i juli 2023, to værktøjsruller og et oprindelsescertifikat fra Lamborghini Polo Storico - og dæk med kun 300 miles på dem.

As for a value, that’s on request only. Sales dækning den Classic.com viser 1998 VT Roadsters og 1998 SV Coupes har tegnet auktion bids and sales from $250,00 to about $470,000 over the past 18 months. Sothebys’ example can be expected to go appreciably higher.

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