RE: Next R8 to share Huracan chassis

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aka_kerrly said:

smilo996 said:

Imagine a foreign automotive company taking over a German automotive company and injecting some fun and decent design into it.

Oh yes that could never happen because you cannot purchase German companies. So instead the rest of us have to put up with more and more companies becoming foreign brands based on German cars.

Hopefully Jaguar will hold out, seeing as Aston is now just a coach builder and TVR will be back.

The Huracean just looks dull and it will also be dull. Lambo, is to VW what Lexus is to Toyota.

What a utter load of bks.

Lamborghini were in a terrible state when Audi bought them, for the previous two decades they had been flogging barely 200 Diablos a year. The Diablo had been milked dry and only in it's best year of sales Lamborghini just reached break even.

The Gallardo & Murcielago are far better cars than those of the past, I've seen/read a fair few reviews of the older cars and whilst the Countach was very the poster car of the 80s it wasn't [i]that[i/] good a car compared with rivals.

You must be a fan of the sort of "character" which was the excuse for years for supercars that were unreliable whilst suffering copious amounts of quality control problems.

Fully agreed. The amount of rose-tinted denial on this forum is actually laughable. As if people today really want to spend six figures on an unreliable car that was uncomfortable to live with. This is 2014, not 1984.