The average transaction at the Cultivated Collector now hovers around $750,000.
“Oh yeah,” Graham Weir, Marketing Manager at The Cultivated Collector says. “We’re going long on Lamborghini.” Indeed, the modest showroom space in the end-of-the-train-line hamlet of New Canaan, Connecticut, is brimming with them. Countaches bookend, its scissor door up, giving a clear view of the gated manual shifter inside. For years, Lamborghinis of this era were little more than symbols for.
As little as five years ago, the most expensive Diablo to sell on online auction house Bring a Trailer went for about a quarter of a million dollars. Today, that’s the range for theUnderstanding these changing tastes and picking out undervalued cars that are about to pop off takes a practiced eye and refined taste. The Cultivated Collector’s name, in this sense, works.
There is difficulty, though, in getting these cars right. Diablos in particular are tricky to keep in good shape. Lamborghini had a handful of different owners all through that model’s production run. The last of those was Audi, but parent company Volkswagen doesn’t keep parts for anything beyond the Murcielago, Weir explains. Even then, it’s iffy.
“These are hugely expensive cars being sold to very discerning individuals,” says founder Matthew Ivanhoe, speaking with Robb Report on the phone from Europe. “Delivering a high-quality product is paramount. It comes with a lot of pressure.” Ivanhoe is in Europe not only to run down leads on a few possible cars to buy but also to check on some restoration projects and make sure everything is running smoothly.
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