Re: V5 Toledo

[Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>]

In article <01ce01c1e36f$65d4bb80$2c8ceed0@utcpoqli>, Phil Ethier 
<pethier@isd.net> writes
>From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
>
>
>>I thought both "Swift" and "Attacker" would have been nice names for a
>>sports car ("Seafire" and "Viscount" somewhat less so).   Glad to know
>>that we'll see a Triumph Attacker one day soon...
>
>"Swift" is a Suzuki trademark in the USA.  Used to call the twin-cam model
>the Swift GTI, but had to change it to Swift GT when VW USA got a little
>huffy about it and loosed their "attacker" lawyers.

Weird.   I thought GTi stood for Ghia Turbo injection.   How could VW 
claim that this is a VW brand?   Or that GT was acceptable and GTi was 
not?   I used to drive a Peugeot 205GT.   I'll give their lawyers a call 
in the morning.   Can't have Suzuki ripping off their brand-names...

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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