FRANCESCO PATTI
The story of the Diablo, the heir to the Countach, the Lamborghini supercar par excellence of the 1990s.
The Diablo has been a fundamental car in the history of Lamborghini. Not only has it majestically picked up the unparalleled and iconic heritage of the Countach: it has also been a lone warrior during the most arduous times ever experienced by the brand before the Audi takeover.
The genius of Luigi Marmiroli and the art of Marcello Gandini have given life to an automobile that was constantly polished and improved in time, always responding to the changing customer tastes.
With the Diablo, the make from SantAgata Bolognese has shifted from a craft dimension to production methods allowing it, among other things, to be the first Lamborghini to be offered in the double body style variant.
This new monograph in the Supercars series narrates the entire technical and style evolution of the Diablo, reviewing every version issued in over a decade of the models life: from the Diablos debut in 1990 to the VT and the SE 30, with the Roadster and the restyled 1999 version in between, followed by the GT, the 6.0 and the SV-R, an extreme Diablo born to race."
