I'm struggling here

[shnozz]

£41k buys the real mccoy (probably take £38k)

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_search.asp

£38k buy s a rover engined fake?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lamborghini-Diablo-SV-Replica_


who in their right minds?

[T5SOR]

Thats a very nice looking replica and with a new Rover V8. I see your point but you could have a very nice Diablo there without the Diablo running costs.....

Mike

[Jonny5]

Replica ? you gotta be joking

[rubystone]

I remember a yellow Diablo doing the rounds a year or so ago - again very very cheap but needed a repaint - I wonder whether this is the car?

[andysv]

that yellow car aint no sv, the factory made the 510bhp from 96 and the 530bhp from 98. my friend had an early lhd diablo recently that he sold in the 40's, he had a lot of good use out of it.

[guydw]

it's nicely done I guess... but why bother ? and for that price ?

best quote from the ad :

"It is a total cruise machine and is as good as any Real Production Lambo"

if you say so mate....

[Cyberhuss]

I didn't know Diablos where so cheap...

[andysv]

most good ones arent. god help you if you get big trouble with a cheapy, it may be better as spares!

[Mr_C]

how much are you looking at for a good one then?

they are supposed to be pretty reliable, is this so? i guess the service intervals are quite short and the services cost mega bucks?

[chrisx666]

Annual 6kMile service around a grand. 3 year 18kMile about 3. Clutches appear to be the killer though, 2500 maybe? - no evidence of a recent one would have to be negotiated off the price.

[guydw]

I reckon you'd want to budget 3-5k a year if you actually use your car (i.e. at least 6k), and if you use it more, it can cost you a lot more.

[andysv]

i'm not an expert on values (alan could help here) but would guess 65k up gets a good/nice car. my small service was £1.5k and i think the large was app £2.5k (official dealer) recommended alternate years. clutches i'm told could run to £5k if all the parts need changing. regarding reliability, my mileage is really low but i only ever had one breakdown in over ten years of ownership that was electrics on an 86 countach, easily fixed.

[shnozz]

ebay shocker - real thing undercuts replica...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1993-K-Plate-Lamborghini-Diabl

[s11eps]

Couple of points to add in here.

Firstly, the parallel deigns replica is a pretty awesome bit of kit. In fact, it's so accurate the panels are actually interchangeable with real Diablo panels - so much so that Lambo drivers who have damaged cars have actually fitted Parallel replacement panels, as the costs are just not comparable.

I saw their demonstrator at Goodwood this summer, and it is truly awesome. IIRC it was fitted with a fettled Griffith lump that gave an identical to 0-100 time to the real thing!

The original ebay car is undoubtedly an absolute bargain for a REAL Lambo, no mistake. But, bare in mind that is a Cat D car, apparently for glass and paintwork damage. How much glass and paintwork damage would a Lamobo have to incurr for an insurance company to decline to repair? I'm not sure I see that happening...

The non-original wheels may also be a point to question.

[nightmare]

there is definitely something questionable about a car which is being sold so far under Autotrader-type prices.

That said, it is amazingly easy to cat D a diablo. An insurance company will maybe not want to, but an owner may well...and with something that specialist it's very easy (saw a cat D elise the other day and it looked perfect...turns out had a minute kink in the chassis following a side impact so it's been written off)

[944gav]

My 944 was recently Cat D written off & I was told by the insurance company that they would pay a minimum of 80% of the cars value before writing it off. Could it really cost upwards of £30K to replace windows & paint? I know Lambo parts are expensive but surely windows don't cost that much!

[s11eps]

944gav said:

My 944 was recently Cat D written off & I was told by the insurance company that they would pay a minimum of 80% of the cars value before writing it off. Could it really cost upwards of £30K to replace windows & paint? I know Lambo parts are expensive but surely windows don't cost that much!

My thoughts exactly.

A full respray and every piece of glass replaced would total less than £20k

@ the 75% rule, the car would ave to be worth a maximum of £28k in order to receive Cat D damage.

At the time it would have been a £45k car, which means damage wouldhave had to have totalled £33k, which is way beyond glass and paint.

[andysv]

s11eps said:

I saw their demonstrator at Goodwood this summer, and it is truly awesome. IIRC it was fitted with a fettled Griffith lump that gave an identical to 0-100 time to the real thing! .

the std diablo does 100 in app 9sec, and 150 in app 20sec. with iro 500bhp depending on the spec. that kit must be light.