Re: re: Japanese

[Ryan Fellini <rfellini@domain.elided>]

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:03:07 -0500
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: re: Japanese
>
> At 9:06 AM +0000 11/13/02, alfa-digest wrote:
> >And can they take and develop photographs quickly of the European auto salons!
> >Look at today's Mitsubishi's front ends (Lancia) and rearends over
>
> I've wondered about this since I was little kid.  I realize that it's
> a moot point in the USA where Lancia doesn't have a presence, but can
> Mitsubishi really use Lancia's 'corporate grille' all over the world
> without any kind of legal action being taken?  It seems to me that
> grille design like that could be some sort of registered trademark.
> Wouldn't BMW sue them if they tried putting two chrome rectangles on
> the front of their cars?

I've wondered this as well.  I'd always assumed there were some
very excited Lancia fans over at Mitubishi.  Besides the obvious
grill look at the name of their rally car: Lancer Evo(lution).
Isn't that just a little close to Lancia Delta Evo(luzione).
Lancia, Lance...

That said, have the Italian companies ever really been good at
pushing trademark issues?  I've never seen them be as aggresive
as say Jeep with their grill.

Another car that I always thought was very "Lancia" from some
angles was the little Infiniti sport sedan from a few years ago.
The rear was nearly identical to the now-departed Lancia Dedra.

Ryan
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