Re: [DML] Other Gull Wing sports cars

[William T Wilson <fluffy@xxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 bluevelvet420@xxxx wrote:

> its sad that hyundai was able to find a way around the patent problem

Any patent that JZD has to cover the gullwing doors would have expired by
now. Other carmakers' lack of desire to build gull-wing cars is just
because they don't want to bother with them or don't think they would be
popular or some business reason like that - not legal issues.

If it weren't for the ingenuity of small, foreign, unpopular automakers,
we wouldn't have DeLoreans (or my other favorite car, the RX-7). There's
nothing "sad" about what Hyundai is doing.

> and not porsche or another company. lamborghini also has interesting

BMW and Mercedes also have gullwing prototypes - real gullwings. I think
Hyundai is just doing something unique.