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"The L147 design problems has now prevented the car to appear on the Geneva Motorshow in March 1999. Audi and Lamborghini president, Franz-Josef Paefgen, says that it does not live up to the designs of the earlier Lamborghinis like the Miura, Countach and Diablo.

Therefore he is now negotiating with several designfirms about the design of the L147. He will not tell which designfirms he is going to work with but he has made it clear that it will not be Audi's own team. But going back in time my guess is that the designfirm chosen to design the L147 is likely to be found within the three firms: Bertone, Gandini or Ital Design.

Mr. Paefgen do not know how big the changes in the new design will be and says it can be everything between 0 to 100 % . If it is going to be a 100% change I am afraid we have to wait for a long time before we see the L147 ready for production. But as Mr. Paefgen says Audi injected just around 31.500.000 US$ into the factory to keep the factory going and they are not going to rush anything. But as he says it would be a mistake to rush things and that the new Lamborghini has to be the perfect car.

Further more Mr. Paefgen has once again made it very clear that Audi is not going to use anything from Lamborghini but if Lamborghini needs anything from Audi they just have to ask and they will do anything to help.

This must be considered very good news and I think we are very lucky that Audi took over the factory as such a small factory needs a bigbrother to stay alive."