yes at least for pubblic results have to say this car is possibly the lowest miles and best preserved GT in the world but i think Diablos are getting more expensive as they deserve
I saw this car in person a few months ago, it was in amazing condition. Never found such an untouched Diablo!
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Looks like a solid deal, imo. 815,000 Euros for an essentially, brand new example whilst I see 3 others listed at 845,000Euros (9,800km), 748,800Euros (2,650km), & 721,980Euros (11,500km). There's a couple more that are way cheaper, but seem to be fair reflections of their usage (50,000km+). Beautiful car, though. Congrats to her new owner.
I remember the Diablo price index every one was chiming in on, the GT’s and the Jota’s were priced the same. A no mile Jota (doubt there are any left) therefore would bring a similar result?
There is one Diablo SE30 Jota with nearly delivery mileage. On top its in the best color combination purple-blue alcantara.
i think it'd be safe to assume so. Im just curious down the line, say 20 years, which will command a higher premium Jota or GT. On 1 hand the Jota only had 25 produced, but at the end of the day it is a variant of the dare I say it more "common" SE30. It also is more extreme in terms of performance, no AC, no muffler... On the other hand the GT has more carbon fiber usage, which i firmly believe carbon will be looked at in the same light that we look at Aluminum built cars from the 1950's-60's, a more radical bodykit than the Jota and the 6.0 vs a 5.7. Either way, both are beyond awesome cars and will go down in history as such. Glad to see Diablos are getting the recognition they deserve, my second favorite of all the V12 Lambos only after the Miura
A white/red Jota (#140/150) was listed a short time ago for around $830,000 converted. I don't remember the mileage, though, sorry.
Found the ad. Asking 675,000Euros with 30,000km for car #140. https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=257245553&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&isSearchRequest=true&makeModelVariant1.makeId=14600&makeModelVariant1.modelId=3&pageNumber=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=searchNetGrossPrice&sortOption.sortOrder=DESCENDING&searchId=b89b889c-fcb2-8178-9ef1-43dc4ec107da According a registry, #140 was the 4th to last Jota built.
The ad states factory original yet Valentino told me that all Jota’s got the treatment post production from a stock SE30.
I assume the same! Maybe 1-2 cars built by factory directly, cause i have a photo taken in 1995 which shows a naked Diablo body with a Jota bonnet mounted. So far, nearly all Jotas, which were stated as "factory" Jota, are post production cars, confirmed by period photos which i found.
1997 Diablo SV (RHD) at Silverstone Auctions. http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1997-lamborghini-diablo-sv
In support of Vale's statement, we were at the factory in 1995 when production of the SE30s was in full swing, Peter Leonard-Morgan allowed us access to the production line and the completion area where we took a fair number of images, nary a Jota to be seen.
Were the Jota kits applied post-production by the factory itself, or someone factory-authorized? Maybe that's what the ad is implying, that it's not a SE30 an owner decided to modify?
From what I know various shops where hired to install the Jota kit with some done when cars were new and some cars getting the treatment when used. The kits could be bought from Lamborghini as an available part. The kit was manufactured and used on a few race cars and the left over units installed on the SE30’s. What I don’t get is why the SE30’s with the Jota kit are evaluated so high being a none original post production mod. Valued as high as a Diablo GT that’s an all original production car. I realize the kits were Lambo sanctioned destined and manufactured for racing and rare, but all SE30’s were born with out it. What am I missing? Geno
What i know is, that many JOTA kits were mounted at Top Motors in Nonantola near the factory. In my files i have 2-3 photos which shows Jotas from new at the factory, but if they were directly mounted there is not confirmed. Maybe the factory wasn´t allowed to mount them directly, same like with the Countach rear wings.
Regarding the JOTA kit history, THIS is interesting! Why has it always been assumed that the Jota were factory cars?
So just as there are no real factory born Miura Jota’s in existence other than the one old Bob developed that was later destroyed, there are no factory born Diablo Jota’s. Based on all that Jota’s just plummeted to below SE30’s value? $800k Restomod?
I wouldn't go as far as saying that none of the Diablo SE30 Jotas were purpose-built or assembled at the factory, unless we know that for sure. The real issue is, as with the Miuras, the factory has never clarified which cars, if any, it purpose-built, which cars it added the Jota upgrades to after completion as an SE30 but prior to delivery, and which cars came back to the factory for the Jota upgrade after delivery as an SE30 to customers. Throw in the fact that it appears the factory may have sublet some or all of the Jota upgrade work, and you can see where the confusion comes from. As an aside, to be clear, there are in fact some factory Miura SV Jotas (SVJs) claimed as purpose-built at the factory, some done post-SV production but prior to delivery, and some returned to the factory after delivery as SV. A similar scenario as with the SE30 Jotas, except, in the case of the Miuras, its known that the factory did the work to create SVJs there on-site, in fact, they made one extra Miura S Jota as late as 1986 for Nuova Automobili Lamborghini SpA CEO Patrick Mimran, which was also done by the factory on-site.
