Gandini to Lambo: Put Your Countach Whre the Sun Don't Shine

[Fink-Nottle]

Gandini Press Release said:

With reference to the recent communication by Automobili Lamborghini regarding the launch of the Countach LPI 800-4, the so-called new Countach, Marcello Gandini distances himself from the project...

Marcello Gandini would like to... clarify that the makeover does not reflect his spirit and his vision. A spirit of innovation and breaking the mould which is in his opinion totally absent in this new design:

"I have built my identity as a designer, especially when working on supercars for Lamborghini, on a unique concept: each new model I would work on would be an innovation, a breaker, something completely different from the previous one," he says.

"Courage, the ability to create a break without sticking to the success of the previous car, the confidence in not wanting to give in to habit were the very essence of my work. It is clear that markets and marketing itself has changed a lot since then, but as far as I am concerned, to repeat a model of the past, represents in my opinion the negation of the founding principles of my DNA."

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/original-lamborghini-countach-designer-gandini-distances-himself-new-lpi-800-4

[andrew]

i wish he'd come off the fence !
better link

[browngt3]

The great man has spoken!

Perhaps Lamborghini shouldn't have called it a Countach but instead marketed it as a Countach tribute. It was always going to be dangerous territory though. How do you do a tribute to the most iconic supercar of all time?

[Fink-Nottle]

The deafening silence from the automotive press is amazing. Except for Top Gear, nobody of note has reported on this, including PH. Nobody wants to incur the wrath of Lamborghini.

[browngt3]

Seems some in the motoring press sitting up and taking notice with lurid headlines such as this!

https://carbuzz.com/news/lamborghini-countach-desi...