Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Suffolk Cars

Stewart, I must say I agree. It has been very sad to see the demise of Suffolk and even I can't get the full picture of what happened and I certainly don't intend to say anymore about it however, my latest SS100 is possibly the best of the 3 that I have had. I was lucky to have been involved with it's build from the chassis upwards and had many happy visits whilst it was being built. A bit like Morgan but even more detailed and personal. I have been to the old works a couple of times and, whilst things are on a quite small scale now, the new company and team are still able to provide support for all the cars out there.
The thing with the Jaguar badge was resolved some years ago when Jaguar contacted the company to tell them to stop using the Jaguar Lozenge shape in their publicity marerial, which they did,as this is used by Jaguar themselves but I'm not at all sure about the badge on the cars. Certainly my "C" type had the lozenge badge on the rear.

I seem to remember the use of a badge was the crux of Ferrari’s legal take on replicas. Totalheadturners was, I think, one of the main targets.
Several times people have asked if my Morgan was a kit. My answers are sometimes wind-up “yes”.
Earlier this year in a carpark with aerotaff he started a wind-up of someone who was asking about the cars and we kept it going.

Especially when you get an "expert" who wants to tell you all about the 8 year wait for delivery and the wooden chassis, all good fun.

Saw this today ..... great cars but it raises some questions.

How come Jag won't be going after this, considering their behaviour set out above

There seem plenty of 'restomod' upgrades that will presumably stop them competing against original cars

If the Bentley recreations from the factory can't be road registered how do these get round that (and if they can't go classic racing and can't go on the road, what will the market be?)

Though if one was a billionaire I suppose you could buy one to look at ... they are beautiful things

https://www.evo.co.uk/jaguar/203430/ecurie-ecosse-c-type-homage-series-revealed?amp

K

Good question, I heard about these cars a while back from a chap on one of the Jaguar forums. I guess we will never know the truth behind Jaguars motive in stopping one and allowing another, could big money be involved?

Seems that JLR have finally had another "success."

They've taken a private individual, and lifetime Jaguar enthusiast, to court in Sweden for building a Replica C Type - and won.

He's had to sell his collection of classic Jaguars to pay the legal expenses

Jaguar enthusiasts are up in arms and I can't see that this is anything but terrible publicity for Jaguar.

They have achieved nothing but make their Indian paymasters look small in the eyes of the world, sad...

You would have thought that JLR would have been more concerned about the Ineos Grenadier than a retired couple in Sweden making a one off of a car that went out of production in 1953.

Does seem a bit small minded - but apparently there was a company involved with more plans to build additional C-type replicas (much like Suffolk). Been reading round this story and it seems it's not just Jaguar who have been doing it - apparently Ferrari, Mercedes and Caterham have done something similar to protect their IP.

JLR did try with the Land Rover Defender 'shape' but lost that court case.

Unless they intend to make a restorepeat model of it themselves again a.k.a Aston with the recent 007 DB?