The Diablo-based Lamborghini Pregunta concept is up for auction…

A Lamborghini concept car built by Lamborghini before it was swallowed up by Audi is now up for sale, and in news that’ll surprise precisely nobody, it’s rather expensive. Welcome back to the Lamborghini Pregunta.

It was originally commissioned back in ye olde days when Lamborghini was owned by Chrysler, and styled by French coachbuilder Carrosserie Heuliez’s then-design boss Marc Dechamps.

It was apparently inspired by the French Dassault Rafale, which is a fighter jet, naturally. Striking, you’d call it. Lamborghini would later spend a significant amount of time dialling into the whole ‘fighter-jet-for-the-road’ aesthetic, but Dechamps did it way back in ’98.

It’s all Diablo underneath, which means a 5.7-litre V12 with a healthy 530bhp and 446lb ft, robustly delivered solely to the rear wheels (this concept was “extensively reworked” from the Diablo base to be RWD only), via a five-speed manual. 0-62mph was a claimed 3.9s. Top speed was quoted as 209mph. That’s still bonkers fast.

It was owned by Heuliez, sold to a private collector in 2008, got the Lamborghini seal of approval – via Polo Storico – in 2014, and has been on display at the Lambo museum since 2021. Now, Broad Arrow Auctions is offering it up in a sale set to take place on 10 October, and has put an estimate of anywhere between €2.5m and €3.5m.