Wasn't it simply the case here that they'd sold "permission" to a different 3rd party to 'officially' create replica body parts/shells and i expect that 3rd party supplier was less than impressed to see this crop-up.
When you read this story and then compare it to how old man Lamborghini reacted to Countach replicas back in the 80's (I've read in a few places that he was very impressed up to the point of congratulating one company on rectifying some of the things that he always saw as flaws with the originals!), you see just how miserable some people can be and how they really should put things into perspective!
I thought it interesting to note that they've gone down the "trademark" route here rather than the copyright one as I expect that makes the world of difference for replicas of other classic cars?
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