A Lamborghini dealership in Montreal is selling two iconic wedge sports cars from the 1990s, but what is rare about these two are their extremely low-mileage odometers and high price tag.
The 1990 25th-anniversary Countach only has 140 kilometres and a price of $799,900 while a 1999 Diablo shows only 1.8 kilometres on it and a price of $499,900.
Originally, Lamborghini Montreal didn’t sell the Diablo for many years until a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous purchased it.
“We sold it to a guy who wanted to have a collection of Lamborghinis,” says Bernard Durand, of Lamborghini Montreal, about the sale that happened less than five years ago. “He has 30 spots in his basement, so he’s not running out of cars he can drive.”
The owner didn’t drive the Diablo and now, 17 years later, it is still a brand new car.
“Those cars did appreciate a lot, so he decided to sell them,” says Durand. Lamborghini Montreal is selling the Diablo and the Countach for the owner. They have also sold one other classic Lamborghini from his private collection.
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Durand says a Countach – one that has been driven – was selling for $100,000 a few years ago. Today a car like that will go for $500,000. “Collectors who have a lot of money to spend aren’t interested in cars with a lot of miles on them,” he says.
Durand suspects that in 20 years both of these cars will still be brand new.
A number of other older, low-mileage cars have recently come on the market, including a 2003 BMW M5 with 500 kilometres for $150,000 (U.S.), a 2004 BMW M3 with 800 kilometres for $100,000 (U.S.) and a pair of 1990s Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedans – each with less than 2,500 kilometres on them – for $300,000 (U.S.).
But the Diablo, in particular, has these other old brand new cars beat.
Durand has a hard time believing the Diablo only has 1.8 kilometres on it because workers at the factory would have put a little less than 100 kilometres on it testing it out on the streets around the factory in Italy. However, Durand says even if the number is more than 1.8 kilometres, it is definitely less than 100.
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