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Chinese Copies Unstoppable: Jaguar Land Rover CEO

Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth says carmakers are powerless when it comes to Chinese brands ripping off their design work.  Mr Speth's comments come after a Chinese court decision to allow Land Wind to continue selling the X7 SUV,


Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth says carmakers are powerless when it comes to Chinese brands ripping off their design work. 

Mr Speth's comments come after a Chinese court decision to allow Land Wind to continue selling the X7 SUV, despite JLR’s protests that its design was too similar to the Range Rover Evoque (pictured above, you be the judge).

Speaking with Autocar India, Mr Speth said Chinese carmakers could easily design and build their own cars but were taking the easy option by copying existing designs.

China, from my point of view, has enough creativity and engineering power to do something on its own and doesn’t have to fall back to the time when copying was of interest,” Mr Speth said.

“I hope the Chinese customer at the end of the day sees the difference and selects the real product and not a copied one. We hope they generate a self-regulation process so that they can get rid of this kind of copy/paste way of working.” 

Self-regulation may be the only solution, as the X7 isn’t the first model to be brought before China’s courts by disgruntled carmakers which also operate in China.

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