One to Buy: 11,000km from new 1990 Lamborghini LM002 American
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In addition to having put the company on a steady financial footing, invested in various upgrades for existing models and placing an emphasis on much-improved build quality, the Mimram Group revived some of Automobili’s Lamborghini’s previous failures and turned them into commercially viable new models.
One of these was the outrageous LM002, a luxury all terrain vehicle born out of the infamous Cheetah project from 1977.
Unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1986, the LM002 was initially powered by a 444bhp version of the 5.2-litre V12 found in the Countach Quattrovalvole. From 1990, this was replaced by a fuel-injected instead of carb-fed power unit. Production continued until 1992 by which time a total of 328 cars had been completed.
A particularly interesting example of the LM theme is set to go under the hammer at Bonhams’ sale in Paris on February 1st.
Completed in 1990, chassis LLA12198 was an early fuel-injected derivative configured in the handsome and rarely seen colour scheme of Blu Acapulco Metallizato with light grey upholstery. Interestingly, it was not initially registered until January 14th 1994, since which time the car has resided in the hands of just two owners.
Since 2016, chassis LLA12198 (which has spent most of its life in Paris) has been the subject of over €100,000 in expenditure and at the time of cataloguing was showing a little over 11,000km on its odometer making it surely among one of the best sorted, lowest mileage examples of the spectacular LM range in existence.
