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 from Craigslist
  • The car looked good, at least from afar
  • It cost them $22,000

Published on Feb 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis

Last updated on Mar 03, 2025 at 8:10 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by Tom Wood

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.

The Pontiac Fiero is known for lending itself particularly well to this sort of thing.

This Franken-monster with a Cadillac V8 built in Arizona was also based on a Pontiac Fiero, as was this wooden Lamborghini and Lamborghini Countach.

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

Nothing was 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 before smashing the steering wheel center cap simply by touching it to test the build quality.

Not a good start.

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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 Lamborghini.

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, like 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 an actual Honda Civic might be a better idea.

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Experienced content creator with a strong focus on cars and watches. Alessandro penned the first-ever post on the Supercar Blondie website and covers cars, watches, yachts, real estate and crypto. Former DriveTribe writer, fixed gear bike owner, obsessed with ducks for some reason.