A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine. A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine.

Lamborghini owned by Thomas Muster – former best tennis player on planet – being served up at auction for £253,000

A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine.

A Lamborghini owned by Thomas Muster – once the best tennis player on the planet – is being served up at an auction for £253,000.

The former ATB Number One owned the yellow Diablo after retiring.

The 201mph Lambo boasts a blister 0-60mph of just 4.3 seconds.

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It has a 5.7 litre, V12, 485bhp engine under the bonnet and a black leather interior.

The 1994 Lamborghini Diablo formerly owned by professional Tennis player, Thomas Muster. (Picture: Jam Press)

The model – with its sharp edges was an iconic 90s motor.

WWF star Hulk Hogan, singer Mariah Carey and actor Pierce Brosnan all also owned one.

It is tipped to sell for £253,000 and has just £68,000 worth of maintenance work on it over the last year.

A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine.
The 1994 Lamborghini Diablo formerly owned by professional Tennis player, Thomas Muster. (Picture: Jam Press)

The model – built in 1994 – was one of only 873 made its specification.

It has done just 5,470 miles – just an average of 273-and-a-half a year over the last two decades.

That works out at just under three quarters of a mile per day over that period.

A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine.
The 1994 Lamborghini Diablo formerly owned by professional Tennis player, Thomas Muster. (Picture: Jam Press)

But one downside is it has no power steering.
Austrian Muster, now 56, was world number one in February 1996.

He won the French Open in 1995.

Muster owned the Lambo for six months between April and October 2021.

It is being sold by RM Sotheby’s.

The listing reads: “This example of Lamborghini’s Diablo, the marque’s poster car for the 1990s, left the factory bound for Austria, where it has resided ever since.

A rare 1994 Lamborghini Diablo, once owned by tennis legend Thomas Muster, is up for auction at £253,000. With only 5,470 miles, this iconic 90s supercar boasts a 5.7L V12 engine.
The 1994 Lamborghini Diablo formerly owned by professional Tennis player, Thomas Muster. (Picture: Jam Press)

“As a pre-VT model featuring the distinctive cliff instrument binnacle, the Diablo represents driving in its purest form with no power steering.

“It was acquired in April 2021 by former ATP world number one Thomas Muster, who most notably won the French Open in 1995.

“A subsequent owner bought the car in October 2021 before it was purchased by the most recent keeper.

The auction takes place in Tegernsee, Germany on 27 July, as reported by Luxury Auto News.

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