 Even though the Formula One project was doing poorly in competition, by 1991 the team had just produced a new engine, the OX99, and approached a German company to design an initial version of the car.Yamaha was not pleased with the result as it was too similar to sport cars of that time, so it contacted IAD to continue working on the project.By the beginning of 1992, just under 12 months after starting to work on the project, IAD came with an initial version of the car.