DAIMLER/CHRYSLER SAYS GM IS CONFUSING THE PUBLIC WITH THE NEW HUMMER GRILLES...AND IS TOOK THEM TO COURT
TOP IS THE NEW HUMMER H2
BOTTOM IS THE NEW JEEP LIBERTY
They used to be cousins, but now the new step-parent of JEEP wants to emancipate their minor from any facial resemblance of it's late family.
When GM bought HUMMER from AM General, a former division of CHRYSLER, they inherited the 7 slot grille, along with the butt ugly looks of this piece of crap machine. People ask MR. TRAFFIC all the time..."Is this a safe vehicle?" and I answer.."Who was this vehicle designed for? THE MILITARY......HELLO!!! The defense of your country ALWAYS goes to the LOWEST BIDDER!!! I wouldn't wanna be in a crash in this contraption!! But that doesn't stop people from thinking they are The Terminator and buying one (and HE spent $250,000 to upgrade the vehicle to make it safer for his kids!!...hey buddy, got a spare Quarter Million??)
JEEP, now owned by the late Herr Daimler & Herr Benz, has the
herr on their backs standing up because their new CHEROKEE replacement, the JEEP LIBERTY
has
the same 7 slots.
Are you confused? Would you buy one, thinking it was the other? If so.....then WHY DO YOU HAVE A DRIVERS LICENSE IN THE FIRST PLACE??!! If you would mistake one for the other......YOU FREAKING DESERVE IT!!! (They're both pieces of crap anyway!!.....how could you be that dumb to buy EITHER???)
Well.........its NOVEMBER of 2002 and a U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld a ruling that the grille design of General Motors Corp.'s
Hummer H2 sport utility vehicle does not infringe on DaimlerChrysler's Jeep brand.
A three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said in an opinion released Monday
(18th) that it agreed with a lower court, which found that DaimlerChrysler's claims "showed virtually no chance of success on the merits."
Jeep and AM General parted ways when American Motors sold both divisions in the early 1980s. AM General then developed the Humvee for the military, and later the Hummer for civilian customers. AM General, an independent company, still makes the Hummer, but GM owns the brand and marketing rights.
GM had filed its own lawsuit against Chrysler, charging that the automaker waived any claims it had on the grille by remaining silent in the years since the first Hummer H1 went into production in 1992.
While the H2 does not compete directly with Jeep vehicles, a future H3 model is expected to be priced at around $30,000, posing a direct challenge to Jeep. GM expects eventually to sell 35,000 to 40,000 Hummer H2s a year, compared with Hummer H1 annual sales of around 1,000.
Since the lawsuit began, Jeep has launched a new advertising campaign featuring a logo based on the seven-slot grille.