Twenty-year-old gold Lamborghini Diablo with 500 miles on the clock is set to fetch a huge price at auction

An ultra-rare 1990s Lamborghini poster car pinch conscionable complete 500 miles connected nan timepiece will spell nether nan hammer astatine a UK auction successful August and is predicted to waste for a sizable figure.

The 2001 Lamborghini Diablo 6.0 VT is 1 of nan past examples of nan iconic supercar ever made.

Just 42 were produced for nan world market, pinch nan auction location successful complaint of uncovering its caller proprietor saying it 'takes desirability to nan adjacent level'.

Rare mill 'Special Edition' Lambos are large business among collectors. And fixed this was nan last tally of Diablos ever built, this should beryllium a car that gets bidders basking nether nan collar adjacent month.

What stands nan 6.0 VT - which stands for 'viscous traction' owed to its four-wheel-drive strategy - isolated from a accepted Diablo is its big of upgrades.

It's naturally-aspirated 6.0-litre V12 motor had its powerfulness coiled up to 550bhp allowing it to deed 205mph erstwhile driven level out.

How agelong would a sprint from zero to 62mph return successful 1 of these? Just 3.95 seconds, Lamborghini says.

Not that nan original proprietor put that fig to nan trial often. 

A right-hand-drive car, it's been utilized sparingly complete nan past 23 years. In fact, nan clocks show it has 546 miles from caller - that's an mean of 24 miles each twelvemonth since it came disconnected nan accumulation line.

It is car number 9 of nan 42 constricted version run, meaning conscionable 33 Diablos were ever built aft it.

The golden overgarment is officially called 'Oro Elios', which translates to Gold Helios. Helios was 1 of nan Titans, boy of Hyperion and Theia and was nan personification of nan Sun. 

It was delivered caller to Hong Kong successful 2021, wherever it formed portion of a important Collection and was stored and maintained to nan highest modular during an extended play distant from prying eyes.

It was imported into nan UK (with each taxes paid) past twelvemonth and registered pinch nan sheet 'Y453 FBA'. 

Benefiting from a thorough inspection/service astatine Lamborghini Tunbridge Wells successful 2023, nan immaculate modern-classic supercar has hardly had its motor tally in. 

'It is arsenic typical arsenic you would wish it to be, successful superbly unused and beautifully preserved condition, nan epitome of collector-quality,' Iconic Auctioneers says.

So special, successful fact, that nan auction location estimates it will make betwixt £400,000 and £500,000 erstwhile nan hammer drops astatine its Silverstone Festival waste connected 24 August. 

Joe Watts, Car master who consigned nan car, explained: 'Early Diablos person been, rather wrongly, considered almost a 'Countach-plus'- but this precocious 6.0-litre VT SE feels overmuch person to Lamborghini's early astatine nan constituent it was created, a move preview of overmuch of what would characteristic successful nan Murciélago - yet still keeping overmuch of nan characteristic of nan earlier cars – a existent saccharine spot. 

'A genuinely spectacular thing, and unarguably worthy of its spot amongst nan precocious echelons of supercars.'

He added: 'With a minuscule-low mileage and successful as-new condition, this illustration trumps moreover that of nan 1 VT SE that is housed successful Lamborghini's ain collection, what an opportunity of immoderate buyer.'

Only V12-engined Ferrari F40 besides up for grabs 

The Lamborghini isn't nan only standout exotic Italian exemplary being offered to nan highest bidder astatine nan auction.

A 1992 Simpson-Ferrari F40 GTR is besides up for grabs - nan only illustration of nan legendary nineties supercar to beryllium powered by a V12 engine.

It is guided astatine £500,000 to £600,000 erstwhile it heads to nan artifact connected 23 August (a time earlier than nan Lambo) astatine nan Silverstone Festival event.

World Champion Mauro Baldi, who drove nan car astatine nan 6 Hours of Vallelunga title successful Italy pinch Richard Jones and Fabio Montani said: 'What a bully and speedy car to drive. Much amended than nan turbo original car!'

Simpson Motorsport - based successful nan UK - radically modified this early nineties F40 for a long-running client, Stefano Sebastiani, successful 2001. 

The 1992 car was an original, station crash-test, F40 chassis from Maranello that was painstakingly converted into a unsocial title car - though 1 that's now suitable to beryllium utilized connected nan road.

Out went its V8 twin-turbo engine, replaced alternatively by a normally-aspirated V12 from a Ferrari 550. 

It besides has lightweight bodywork, a afloat FIA roll-cage, wider wheels and custom-made suspension. 

The car was further upgraded successful 2005 pinch nan fitment of a Hewland NLT six-speed sequential gearbox.

Once built, nan V12 GTR was subsequently campaigned astatine various events successful nan UK and Europe.

After these years of competition, nan car was placed into barren storage.

Last year, it was removed from its slumber and tested to guarantee it remains successful value moving order, taking nan full mileage up to 7,110km (4,418 miles).

Accompanying nan car is simply a history record containing drawings and specification specifications relating to its original build, a number of applicable invoices, and its UK V5C confirming that it's road-registered arsenic a 'Simpson Ferrari GTR' pinch nan UK number sheet 'J848 JUY'. 

'Offered astatine a fraction of nan apt asking value for an F40 LM, this singular V12 GTR is perchance eligible for immoderate of nan astir prestigious motorsport events crossed nan globe and is roadworthy registered,' Iconic Auctioneers says.