Guys flew to Seattle to buy a fake Lamborghini Diablo off Craigslist and as soon as the garage door lifted there was only one reaction to be had

These guys flew to Seattle to buy a fake Lamborghini Diablo they found on Craigslist.

The car looked okay, for a replica, but it came with a long list of red flags.

It looked the part, though.

So much so that some people were confusing it for the real thing – well, from a distance.

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A fake Lamborghini for Honda Civic money

CJ Lotzer, Ryan Iwerks, Grant Matthees, Ben Roth, Micah Sandman and Evan Sheff – the guys that run the CboysTV YouTube channel – went to Seattle to buy a fake Lamborghini Diablo they found on Craigslist.

This Diablo is a kit car based on a Pontiac Fiero, and it doesn’t look half bad.

And the Pontiac Fiero evidently lends itself particularly well to this sort of thing.

The Franken-monster with a Cadillac V8 a man in Arizona built is also based on a Pontiac Fiero, as are the wooden Lamborghini and Lamborghini Countach we saw a while back.

One of the main problems with these kit cars is they never actually work, and this fake Lambo was no exception.

Nothing fitted properly, especially the body panels, which rattled like crazy.

The shoddy build quality became even more evident when one of the guys accidentally ‘broke’ the steering wheel by simply touching it.

“This doesn’t feel like… right,” he said, right before smashing the steering wheel center cap simply by touching it to test the build quality.

Not a good start.

Still, after negotiating for a bit, the guys from CboysTV YouTube channel managed to buy the car from the seller in Seattle for $22,500.

That’s the price of a used Honda Civic, so it’s up to you to decide whether that’s money well spent on a fake Lambo.

Should you buy a fake Lambo?

The short answer is ‘no’.

The long answer is ‘nooooooooooooooo’.

Some fake supercars look relatively convincing and can be fun, but only for about five minutes because the problems start after that.

Two people who own fake Lamborghinis, a fake Murciélago and a fake Huracán respectively, agree that fake supercars cause headaches.

They look good from far, but are far from good.

Sometimes you hear horror stories, such as the guy who bought a wooden Lamborghini that disintegrated after a few miles.

Reliability is often an issue, build quality is another, and then there’s the stigma associated with owning a replica.

So aforementioned Honda Civic might be a better idea.