Triton
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| posted on 25/3/05 at 08:38 PM |
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The Austin 7 wins my vote
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Simon
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| posted on 28/3/05 at 09:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pbura
I wonder if part of the appeal of the original Lotus 7 for you Britishers was because of the Austin Seven and some of the specials built from it.
[img]http://www.vieux-volants.com/Galerie%20photos/Swiss%20Classic%20British%20Car%[/img]
Britishers!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You yankers been making up words again
ATB
Simon
PS Darren, whatever - I hope it get sorted - in your favour!!
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monkey69
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| posted on 28/3/05 at 09:38 PM |
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What about using roman numerals then?
The GTS VII??
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kipper
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| posted on 28/3/05 at 10:14 PM |
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VII sounds too much like a German missile from the last do, The buggers bombed our chippy
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locoboy
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| posted on 30/3/05 at 03:18 PM |
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Or turn the VII into V2.............giving you
The GTS V2
Not to be thought of as quarter of a V8 though
ATB
Locoboy
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britishtrident
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| posted on 30/3/05 at 03:49 PM |
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Interestingly Caterham always forget that they weren't the only company Chapman sold the Lotus Seven rights to there was at least one other
company (in NZ) making official Sevens.
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jcduroc
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| posted on 4/4/05 at 02:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Interestingly Caterham always forget that they weren't the only company Chapman sold the Lotus Seven rights to there was at least one other
company (in NZ) making official Sevens.
And Argentina, iirc
JCM
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JamJah
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 12:04 AM |
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Just found this thread again. On the trademarks I only found they had SEVAN and not in lowercase. Does case matter?
Darren, are you at liberty to say if youve heard any more? If you cant or would prefer not to I understand the situation.
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 01:54 AM |
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Our car is a Bradford7, should I be in fear of the letterbox now? 
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
Latest Picture (14 Sept 2014)
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carnut
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 07:33 AM |
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I think you can copyright a number as the porsche 911 was going to be the 901 but this wasnt allowed as Pugs use the zero in the middle of there cars
to designate that it is a pug.
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dozracing
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 08:10 AM |
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I'm at liberty to say what i like, because i shan't let them tell me what i can and cannot say about the situation.
As i understand it and according to the trademark information they sent me they own the rights to the word "seven" and the number
"7" when used for a 2 seaters sports car of the clubman style.
There are probably loads of ways tog et round it, Forumla 27 for instance get away with it. How do you describe a clubmans style car, what if it had a
childs seat in it etc..
At the end of the day they have more money than me, so it wouldn't even get to court, cos i would lose before it got there, but, i can make it
to my advantage by gain publicity and credibility from it because Caterham obviously feel threatened by it.
Its funny that they are disturbed by the use of 7 in the car that i plan to use to rival the CSR, yet the wide version of the Locost
"W7DE" they made no comment about at all.
Kind regards,
Darren
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Deckman001
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 08:25 AM |
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why doesn't somebody like yourself, with products like you have (Bloody Good) start a whole new 'type' name ? I'm sure the
whole industry would love to have another general type name for these cars and it would stick two fingers up to the owners of the old '7'
and 'seven' names
Jason
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ned
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 09:08 AM |
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Jason,
Not sure what you're suggesting would ever work/take off. Bit like building a cobra replica and calling it a python/snake/adder, bit silly imho
and everyone knows what it's aspiring to be!
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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JamJah
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 09:18 AM |
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Are you allowed to refer to products in tag lines.
ie. GTS 8 - One up from a 7.
Or how baout calling it GTS Severn. Of course after its great power and reliablity(of tides). Publicity shots could be on the Clifton Suspension
Bridge.
Naff I know. But I'm trying.
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Deckman001
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 09:25 AM |
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Yeah true, but a web browser isn't just called I.E it's a web browser, one make is just 'Explorer', there are others !
Ford don't own the name 'coupe' they have models that have a 'coupe' version,
we all know that aeroplanes are made by different companies, they all use a number to determine the size, class and type but they all make aeroplanes
Cars have wheels and seats, the 7 was Mr chapmans design of car, why can't the rest of the kit car market get together to name the class of car
differently, only Caterham and their drivers would try to complain as the rest of the market would be known a something else and they would get
forgoten over time !!!!!
Do you really think that westfield/dax/robinhood/luego,mk.. the list goes on.. would complain at having a new name type to get around the
problem???
Jason
Not ranting, just trying to explain my thoughts
[Edited on 13/4/05 by Deckman001]
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JamJah
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| posted on 13/4/05 at 09:33 AM |
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ned, what i was trying to say in my zzz way was I can only find use of the word. couldnt find entry for number. but surely if they only have the word
in caps then ypu can doi something like se7an but not as this is already identifiable. how close is close?
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