Re: Not worth it yep. Words cannot express how high the Diablo is over the Viper. I feel ashamed and frightened to even mention the 2 cars in the same sentence as I might get assassinated by an Italian spy. I took a vacation to Maui and I rented a 97 Viper. It was $400 per day. I asked them where the Diablos were and they said that Lamborghini cut them off cuz they abused warranties too much. They also said that they rented Diablos out (when they had them) for $1100 a day. I drove the Viper, yes it was PHaT. It was scary, it was badass, it was fast, it was an eye catcher. I don't even know what model it was I just went and rented one to say that I drove one. I also received a speeding ticket in the Viper while I was there. My biggest complaint was that the Interior sucked bad. For the money, I would purchase a Lotus Esprit instead of a Viper (they cost about the same brand new). I love the Esprit interior check it at http://www.lotuscars.com/current%20models/details/interior.html. Any fool knows that the Diablo is way better than the Viper. The Diablo is 90 HP per Liter, the Viper is 60 HP per Liter.
Re: Not worth it Whoever started this thread is freakin nuts. I swear, I though Vipers were bad ass back in the day....I have seen like 5 diffrent ones in my home town in OKLAHOMA but you never see a Lamborghini. Well anyways a freind of mine works for Motorcars International in Springfeild, Missouri. They are a HUGE Lamborghini dealer. I went and spent the day with him up there he showed me the cars and etc. I was in heaven when I stepped in, instantly I was surrounded bt at least 10 million dollars worth of Lamborghinis! I couldnt beleive my eyes. While I was looking at all the cars he came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and motion me to follow him, so I did. He took me into a room in the back part of the building. Underneath a ginat cloth cover with a huge Lamborghini Emblem on the top of it. I asked what was underneath it...than he pulled the cover off and said "This is what the world is waiting for" My eyes dropped to my damn knees, i swear it I almost started to cry. It was a Lamborghini I have nevver seen before. It was the MURCIELAGO. He told me they just got it in and it was one of the first in the U.S. I couldnt breathe! It had curves like a beautiful women. He said "would you lke to sit in it", I kinda mubbled "shurrree." He open the up swept doors and they made a really sweet swift sound as they went up. He handed me the key and said "Hop In" I asked him what they key was for and he said "you didnt expect to come this far without driving one did you?" I was like oh shit, I can drive this....he told me he has to go with me. The boss or the guy that owned this place was a really nice guy and he said he trusted me so he let my freind let me drive the Murcielago! We got in shut the doors and I stuck the key in the console. I started her up and the ignition made no noise, than about 3 milli seconds later the most beautiful sound in the world was coming from behind us. I could tape that sound and listen to it over and over again, there is just nothing like it. My freind who works at this place told me to be careful he said if you just barely tapped the gas pedal it would move quick, obviously I listened to him, I would kil myself if I even dinged this quarter million dollar car. So the open the dorrs and I put it into gear and barely applied the gas and out the dorr we went. We pulled through the parking lot and went up through town. This car was just screaming! Everyone in Springfeild was wathcing us as the car drove by! Finally we got through town to the highway! Thats where I wanted to go. So we got on the on ramp and I put her into 4th gear and applied more gas! That car litterarly flew! Just keeps going and going and goin while making that beautiful sound. I hit about 65 than I threw it into 5th and than later dwon the highway it was in 6th. I couldnt help myself I had to do what the Lamborghini was meant for. I opened her up, my freind wasnt too happy but I had too....it was irresistable. SHe took off like lighting.....I hit 120 than 140 and started to slow down the engine just screamed "FASTER go FASTER" He told me to take it on back we were gone long enough. So we drove through town back to the dealer and on the way we pulled up to a stoplight, a guy in a honda civic pulled up beside us, he had one of them supped up jap cars, NOS etc. Well, he honked and reved his car up. I looked at the red light, looked for cops, looked ahead for cars. I wasnt hgoing to let the Italian masterpeice be eaten by a damn jap car. The light turned green and my freind said GO! VWOOM! THrough her out 1st, 2nd, 3rd, VWOOOOOOOW and that peaice of SHI*T was way behind us! I probably hit 80 or 90 in a few blocks...no joke. Than I amde my turn back into the dealers lot. Pulkled into the garage and killed it. Opened the doors and stepped out and shook the guys hand that let me drive it. I said to him "THank you sir, thank you for letting my dream come true" HE just smilled and said, well, I can tell she had an affect on you, your very welcome. So I just went looking around at other cars and my buddy that works there said you ever seen a F50 and I wqas like whoa shit! F50! Where, so he pointed over to it and he told me it was already sold to some CEO. I looked at it for awhile and some other cars and left. All I can say from this awesome experience was that it made me think twice about cars in this world. I realized that Italian masterpeices are 100x better than Detroit produced junk. These cars are HAND made....not machined made. These Lamborghinis are made to kill its competition and they do it ver well. Take Care
Re: Not worth it jeez just listen to the names... dodgecoughcough lambourghini (italian accent) and the viper has to be souped up to compete with the diablo stock? get real...yank cars can't stand up to euros so they have to mod them except maybe the saleen s7 porsche bugatti mclaren ferrari lambourghini edonis koenigsegg, audi, bmw, vw, bentley all kick yank cars ass <A BORDER="0" HREF="http://www.supercars.net/emoticons.html"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://speed.supercars.net/cboardhtml/emoticons/smile.gif"></A>
Re: Not worth it I still dont understand how you can call this Diablo "stock" after all the modefications, engine-wise with turbos and increased fuel capacity and so forth. From what I gather, a VTTT Diablo costs approximately a tad over twice that of a stock VT Diablo. There's your "stock" for the comparison with Stock vipers. Of course, you get what you pay for, a Wishbone suspension system stock in the Diablo runs well over 40 grand to put in a car. And, as far as stock vipers go, It is fair to compare this Diablo VTTT to a Viper Venom 800TT. The viper runs approx. 80 grand stock, and the Diablo about 250 grand. the Venom 800TT costs 160 grand and the Diablo VTTT about 500 grand. As you can see, they have pretty much doubled the stock price with their improvements. The Hennessey team did some rather impressive improvements which include increasing the engine size, modifying the tires, brakes, engine capacity and efficiency (101.13 hp per litre), among other things. In the Diablo VTTT We cannot say much other then 2 turbos have been added bringing hp up 200 to 750 hp, and a few other minor things. The Hennessey team had more things to upgrade, they knew what they had to do, and they did it. The Diablo VTTT isnt truly worth the money or upgrades unless I acquire some information that proves otherwise (supercars' overview of it isnt very complete). The Viper does have Handling issues of course, but if they spent an extra $300,000 on it to match the price of the Diablo, I'd say byebye to the lambo. But, that is very circumstantial and unlikely to happen, so I'm going to go with the Diablo for now. P.S. I would drive either of these cars if given to me, unless toyota releases some 3000 hp turbos for '89 camrys
Re: Not worth it this is worth every penny top speed is 255 for the 752 bhp version...thats faster than the veyron for like 3 times as less(for 2004 prices) look on http://cool-autos.net/lists.php look on every one of those lists this car is on every single one!!!
Re: Not worth it YES VIPERS ARE FAST BUT COMON! THIS IS A MODDED VIPER VS A BONE STOCK LAMBO! JUST THINK YEA A VIPER VENOM 1000TT RUNS THE WORLDS FASTEST 1/4MILE BUT CAN IT CORRNOR BETTER THAN A LAMBO? HELL NO YOU CAN BUY A BASIC DIABLO AND WITH 40K A DIABLO WOULD SMOKE A VIPER ON THE TRACK! REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU SAY! IM TALKING 1400AWHP TOP SPEED OF 240+ AND RUNNING 1/4 IN THE 9S PLUS CAN OUT PERFORM ANY VIPER, CORVETTE EVEN THAT SALEEN S7! DID YOU HERE ABOUT THE DIABLO T50 THAT WOULD KILL A AND THING JUST ABOUT!
Re: Not worth it i think its worth it, all it has is 2 turbos, the viper has modifications shoved up its a$$ becuase of the many things they put on it. The same with the lingenfilter, which has like 50 things. All they have changed in the diablo's engine is put 2 turbo's, which beleive me, is more than enough, and it could basically beat ALL cars out there that only have two turbos.