Wednesday 13th April 2011

You know you want to... Lamborghini LM002

Paid-up OPEC members or power crazed revolutionaries only need apply

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It seems only right to point out that these vehicles have a 290 litre fuel tank. So, with petrol at approximately £1.35 per litre that'll be £391.50 to fill it up. Once full the tank will weigh 208 Kilos (that's getting on for the weight of three adults), and if you drove it like Miss Daisy was in the back and managed 10mpg, your £391.50 would get you just over 600 miles before your next fill-up. If you did 10,000 miles in a year it would have cost you over six and a half grand in fuel alone. Tyres (which are probably £500 a throw, if you can find any) and servicing go on top of that...

However, if you were driving it across a desert as it was intended (probably on your way to carry out a military coup), you'd be doing well to get much more than 5mpg. Oh and we're talking about the 5.2 litre version. The 7.2 litre model might not be as frugal... Then again, the government you'd be about to overthrow would probably have plenty of oil reserves so maybe we're making too much of an issue out of this?

This 1987 LM002 is advertised at a classic car dealer in Manchester and has been part of a private collection for 17 years. Its owner used it little in that time and describes the Lambo as being in 'near concours' condition.

He also tells us that this particular LM002 was tuned by Koenig. It's another hard vehicle to value (they made over 300, although nobody seems to know exactly how many), but £39,995 doesn't seem unrealistic. The question is; what should you fit on the back - a grenade launcher or a machine gun?

[bubster]

I'd rather have than than a Hummer

Yes please....LOVE IT

[Hendry]

Please don't tempt me. I've already thought what I'd put in the back -- LPG tanks...

[treetops]

Like a lot though woild prefer in the red or black.

Very exclusive.

Last two (yes two!) I saw were in Monaco parked side by side outside Cafe de Paris - must have been the local owners club coffee morning!

[shouldbworking]

40 grand seems an absolute steal when a new range rover would cost you twice that.

[Boba Fret]

ALWAYS loved these beasts!

A friend of my fathers had one for a while 'in the day' and after much begging he agreed to take my brother and me to school in it one day! Made for quite an arrival! (how come 80's 'excess' didn't seem that 'excessive' in the 80's????????)

[Lightningman]

shouldbworking said:

40 grand seems an absolute steal when a new range rover would cost you twice that.

It won't seem like a steal when you get the first service bill

[vixen1700]

Sorry, but they were and still are absolutely ghastly.

[car95]

Yes. I do want to.

[Sivraj]

Didn't these have Countach engines in them? (Very cool)

[jake15919]

Tyres for this thing are out of production and way more than £500 each.

[hostyle]

No giftwrap needed!

The idea of LPG sounds good. However I have the feeling older Lamborghini tech and LPG will make for an interesting fireball

[Lost soul]

jake15919 said:

Tyres for this thing are out of production and way more than £500 each.

And 290lts would weight 290k

[hornetrider]

Simply insane. Magnificent machine.

[Stu R]

Lost soul said:

And 290lts would weight 290k

Only if you filled the tanks up with water.

[don logan]

Don`t they also have a 22 litre oil capacity?

[chrisjl]

Lost soul said:

And 290lts would weight 290k

If you filled it with water, yes. If more conventionally you filled it with petrol, then at 73.7% the density of water (according to this page) you get very close to the 208kg in the article.

[ridds]

Lost soul said:

And 290lts would weight 290k

Specific Gravity Fail.

[dlc74]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS........... Quality. It just needs a gun chair and a token Arab.

[MonkeyArmDealer]

The description of the picture as "lamorgine full pictures for selling 012" on the website does make you wonder...

[TonyHetherington]

£40k !!?!?

£40k ?!?!!

That is ludicrously good.