Pharmaceuticals may have been needed to generate much Beetlemania over yesterday’s 2002 Turbo Bug – and yes, mea culpa, I got the horsepower wrong on the 02, as pointed out by many of you who apparently keep up on the vagaries of New Beetle model year differences. Thanks for all the help, ladies. When all was said and done, however, it didn’t help the FMIC Beetle, who made a face and decided to go antiquing after suffering its 62% Crack Pipe loss.
Today we’re going to go to the other end of the dick-compensating scale, albeit for those of lessor means. This Fiero-based 1999 Lamborghini Diablo comes with a price that’s two thirds that of the starting point for a real one these days – and a for a real Diablo, especially a bargain one, the obtainment price is only the tip of the iceberg, or in the case of a pre-Audi Lambo, the tip of Greenland. Canadian-built (NAERC- RIP) and currently residing in California, this Diablo doppelgänger looks a hell of a lot better than a lot of Fiero freakshows, and has a lot of real Lamborghini Diablo parts. . . like its Nissan 300ZX headlights. It’s also targa-roofed, so those with hair plugs – I’m just sayin’ – should be forewarned. The inside also thankfully does not have the ‘80s purgatory of angularity that was the Fiero’s dash, but instead sports rolling curves and tiny gauges, as well as a milled gate shifter for the Muncie 4-speed gearbox. What the extra gate is for remains a mystery, however. Facing the controls are seats that again thankfully don’t channel the ghosts of Fieros past, but look suspiciously like something out of Ron Jeremy’s lanai. That being said, there’s only a claimed 5,700 or so miles on the Lambo part of this car, and 58K on the Fiero that sits beneath it. Along with the miles, it sports a clear Cali title.