By Eve Nowell 
A unicorn among Lamborghinis, a machine so scarce even the brand’s own factory never touched it, is gearing up for auction drama. The 1993 Diablo Evolution GTR—just one of ten ever made—will take center stage at Broad Arrow’s Zurich shindig come November 1.
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill limited-edition bull. Nope, this Diablo skipped Sant’Agata Bolognese entirely. Roland Affolter, Lambo’s Swiss bigwig in the ‘90s, dreamed it up himself. He bankrolled a tiny batch of custom-bodied Diablos, dubbing them “Evolution GTR,” each flaunting wild tweaks screaming anything but factory.
Under that handcrafted shell? The same beastly 5.7-liter V12 that made the standard Diablo legendary. A whopping 485 horses and 428 lb-ft of torque, chucked to the rear wheels via an old-school five-speed stick. Pure, unfiltered madness—the kind that pushed these analog legends past 200 mph like it was no big deal.
This bad boy wears eye-catching Viola paint and a blue Alcantara cockpit. With just 21,000 miles, it’s equal parts museum piece and time capsule from an era when exotics relied more on metal than microchips.
Affolter’s redesign ditched the Diablo’s razor-sharp edges, axing pop-up lights for boxy fixed ones while slapping on aero upgrades: roof scoop, gaping vents, a reshaped rear bumper with mesh inserts. Then there’s that colossal adjustable wing and those one-off three-piece wheels—because subtlety wasn’t on the menu.
Ten exist. Total. Each a weird, wonderful footnote in Lamborghini’s history, born not from corporate blueprints but a dealer’s obsession with standing out. Word is, bidders might throw down near $600K when the hammer drops.
Shawn Henry