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Thanks for the honour, but AFAIK Mr.Claus Luthe never had an Italian connection. We cannot ask him any more, but years ago, when I spoke with him on the phone, he didn't say anything about relations to Italian car-designers.
He was still angry, that the RO 80-roof didn't got the beading, the bonnet and the trunk-lid have. The NSU-CEOs cancelled that, because it made a sunroof impossible.
And he was also angry, that the K 70 got the front indicators under the bumper and not on the front edges of the wings. The beadings for that you see at any K 70-front-wing.
Annother detail about inspiration: I asked Mr.Luthe, if the constructor of the K 70-front axle and -suspension went to BMW after the NSU-development-division was closed down by Volkswagen.
Because the front shockbreakers of the E32-BMW are quite similar with those of the K 70, the upper bearings are nealy identical. And the steering-column of the E21-BMW is close to that of the K 70.
But he denied. This guy became a Mercedes-employee afterwards.
He was still angry, that the RO 80-roof didn't got the beading, the bonnet and the trunk-lid have. The NSU-CEOs cancelled that, because it made a sunroof impossible.
And he was also angry, that the K 70 got the front indicators under the bumper and not on the front edges of the wings. The beadings for that you see at any K 70-front-wing.
Annother detail about inspiration: I asked Mr.Luthe, if the constructor of the K 70-front axle and -suspension went to BMW after the NSU-development-division was closed down by Volkswagen.
Because the front shockbreakers of the E32-BMW are quite similar with those of the K 70, the upper bearings are nealy identical. And the steering-column of the E21-BMW is close to that of the K 70.
But he denied. This guy became a Mercedes-employee afterwards.