The Eccentrica V12 Roadster is a Diablo Transformed

Eccentrica took the original Lamborghini Diablo, the quintessential 1990s poster car, and completely refreshed it for the new age. It showed its first handiwork in the shape of a coupe in 2024. Now it does the same restomod trick to the open-top version, the result is the Eccentrica V12 Roadster.

It starts with a first-series Diablo, then strips the idea back to its bones and rebuilds it with 3 500-plus unique parts, a new body, fresh suspension, and a cabin that feels designed for gloved hands and serious mileage rather than a museum floor.

A Diablo Rebuilt

Eccentrica calls the roadster a comprehensive re-engineering, and the phrase fits. The original Lamborghini platform is still the base, but almost everything around it has been reconsidered. The body is built from steel and carbon fibre, and the proportions have been reworked to suit a wider track.

The open-air format needed more than a chopped top and a roll hoop. A dedicated aerodynamic study shaped the roadster’s bodywork to manage airflow around the cabin. The body-in-white itself is reinforced with carbon fibre, which gives the car a firmer base for the revised suspension and helps the whole package feel less like a preserved artifact and more like an engineered object.

The V12 remains

The heart of the car remains the Diablo’s 5,7-litre naturally aspirated V12. Eccentrica has instead tuned the engine for cleaner response, better elasticity and more immediate punch when the throttle opens. That work includes ECU recalibration, improved thermal management and airflow changes that help the engine breathe more efficiently.

Output is quoted at 405 kW and 600 N.m of torque at 6 500 r/min. Top speed is listed at 335 km/h. The best news for anyone who actually likes driving is that Eccentrica has kept the six-speed gated manual. That decision alone tells you the company understands its audience. A Diablo restomod with a twin-clutch gearbox would have missed the point completely.

There are three driving modes as well, which gives the car a broader spread than the original ever had. The goal is to make the car sharper, more consistent and more usable without sanding off the character that made the Diablo such a poster car in the first place. The roadster uses hydraulic power steering, a modern Brembo braking system and custom semi-active dampers. The suspension geometry has been redesigned rather than merely adjusted.

Mr Lambo

Eccentrica’s engineering leadership is none other than Maurizio Reggiani, a man who knows his way around Lamborghini folklore. Reggiani was chief technical officer at Sant’Agata and had a hand in the Murcielago, Gallardo, Aventador and Huracan.

Eccentrica was founded by Emanuel Colombini, an entrepreneur and Lamborghini collector who wanted a first-series Diablo rebuilt without compromise. He partnered with Milan-based design studio Borromeo De Silva to create his vision. The roadster carries the Diablo’s basic silhouette, but the proportions are tidier and the detailing is cleaner.

The Cabin

Inside, the V12 Roadster is trimmed like a bespoke commission rather than a production car. Connolly leather, Alcantara, anodised pieces and exposed carbon-fibre make up the main surfaces, and the emphasis is clearly on feel as much as appearance. This is the sort of interior you would expect in something with 19-build exclusivity and a price tagto match.

Each car will be individually specified with its owner. Eccentrica is promising a genuinely bespoke process, so no two cars need look or feel the same. That approach suits the car’s place in the market. There are only 19 roadsters planned.

Eccentrica has not simply turned a Diablo into a convertible. It has taken one of the great poster cars of the 1990s and asked what it would feel like if the original idea had been developed with no budget ceiling and no nostalgia filter. The answer is a roadster that keeps the noise, the theatre and the silhouette, but adds the polish, rigidity and precision the old car never had.