It wasn’t until the Diablo was comprehensively upgraded in 1998 that anti-lock brakes appeared as standard kit on this supercar. You can spot these cars by their fixed headlights and they also come with traction control fitted. The traction control is quite primitive by modern standards and only prevents wheel-spin rather than aiding the car through corners in the way ESP stability control does.

Pre-1998 cars have little in the way of safety gear and do not have the driver’s airbag supplied in later models.

Getting in and out of the car is tricky, parking is a nightmare due to zero rear vision unless you fit reversing cameras plus there’s next to no storage space in the front boot and hardly any in the cabin. Then there’s the whole starting procedure that needs to be observed every time the car is fired up to make sure it’s warmed through. If you buy a Diablo, you’d better have a second car for nipping to the shops.