Jaguar Land Rover has taken legal action against BYD over claims that the Chinese carmaker reverse-engineered Defender components for its Ti7 SUV, with bailiffs reportedly seizing digital data from BYD offices in the Netherlands.
Jaguar Land Rover has taken legal action against BYD over claims that the Chinese carmaker reverse-engineered Defender components for its Ti7 SUV, with bailiffs reportedly seizing digital data from BYD offices in the Netherlands.
Bailiffs raiding BYD’s Dutch offices for digital data, and nobody’s asking the obvious question: who in Gaydon handed a Chinese rival a Defender parts list in the first place? Reverse-engineering doesn’t happen from a showroom walk-through. Somebody had access, and the article doesn’t say whether JLR has even identified the leak or just the copycat. Wouldn’t that be the story?