There are no free lunches in life.
Its rather a sad case, but someone was trying to take commercial advantage and make financial gain out of someone else's design and IP and not pay for the privilege. Then apparently without adequate resources and silly enough to challenge a corporation with by comparison deep pockets and most likely inhouse legal team that would specialise in that area.
regards
Not disagreeing with your comments but it feels a little inconsistent.
Follow the path of Bowler?
Making cars that look rather like something else.
Every article talks about LR and Defender.
Shapes and body panels (somewhat abused) from the donor car.
Promotion of it in the press and comments from JLR in a couple.
Company on the edge of going broke, JLR buy it and make it SVR tier 2. Not a punitive lawyer in sight?
Don't get me wrong as an enthusiast I am very pleased they made that move. If it means they are going to do some Rally-Raid/Dakar stuff then brilliant it finally looks to the future brand and not the past. Building new brand equity not robbing old sterotypes.
It does make you wonder.
I would have thought that the money being spent on cases like that would have been better spent working out why they were still making X types, sorry X type Mk2 the XE and who signed it off. Cleaning up the massive bifurcation of the line up and working out how to get to BEV faster.
Sorry if that is the elephant in the JLR room and not meant personally at your comment but someone in management needs a MASSIVE kick up the a__e before they waste time on things like that.
