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12/11/12
Bentley Falcon SUV or Ford Falcon? Which one is legal?
Bentley Falcon SUV is equipped with a dual turbo engine capacity of 4.0-liter engine mated to a hybrid technology normally found in variants Continental GTC and GTC and Fling Spur.
Ultra-luxury car manufacturer, Bentley plans to create a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) luxury that will they named Falcon. However, without waiting for a long time, a lawsuit against the Falcon name was already there.
Rejection is ready to put forward the name Falcon by Ford Australia. They claim that they use the name Falcon has long since. Ford Falcon itself had been since the 1960s in Australia.
"The name is already registered in the category of 'motor vehicle', so even though it's an SUV, it makes no difference (because it remains in the category of motor vehicles) here," said Ford Australia public affairs director Sinead Phipps quoted from Car Advice.
Bentley himself reportedly was going to use the name Falcon for their SUV that has the name EXP 9-F while still in draft form.
Falcon name was inspired from some jet fighter designed by the United States (U.S.), which is always taken from the name of a type of bird predators. As the Eagle or Hawk.
Names like that are also widely used by automotive manufacturers. Automotive manufacturers that use the name of a bird predator Datsun Bluebird, AMC Eaglet, Ford Falcon, and Pontiac Firebird.
It is the underlying Bentley chose the name Falcon. Since the SUV is targeted to medium and above, hence the name Falcon itself is suitable. Moreover reportedly rich people in America happy with the names of birds.
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