The Diablo Coupe (1990-1998) is the base rear-wheel-drive car that opened the range and replaced the Countach. Marcello Gandini penned it, though Chrysler's studio softened his sharper original lines after buying Lamborghini in 1987. Under the rear deck sits a longitudinally mid-mounted 5.7-liter V12; it was the first Lamborghini to top 200 mph in production form.
Early cars are raw and unassisted. The running changes that came with the VT in 1993, power steering, electronically adjustable dampers, four-piston brakes, and better cooling, fed back into the later base cars, so a post-1993 Coupe is noticeably easier to live with than a 1990-1992 one.
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It's the entry point and the purist's pick: rear-drive only, the lightest of the bunch, and the closest thing to a modern Countach in feel. The VT sits above it with all-wheel drive, and the SE30 and SV are the harder-edged specials. If you want the rawest analog Diablo rather than the most usable one, this is it.
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