regardless of the legal outcome, what mega-corporations do is bury people in subpoenas and paperwork which sends them to the wall without ever getting to court - no one claims that copying something with the intent of passing it off as the real thing is wrong, but as far as building a homage after an original vehicle that when done, is clearly NOTHING like the real article is another thing altogether I feel .... but of course, firms investing billions to develop a vehicle and millions in marketing are also right to be monumentally p155ed off about such ventures - it is just not clear to that doing so would be illegal ... if so, I imagine my transforming a 1974 Porsche 911 into an extremely accurate repro of a 1994 twin turbo 930 could have landed me in court - but where does it stop? sticking a whaletail and turbo guards on a 911 makes it look like a 930 .... all original parts but not the absolute beast it looks like
as I mentioned: difficult legal area, so the big boys opt to shut people down instead of bothering to try and potentially fail their case