{"id":2246759,"date":"2026-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2246759"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:00:00","slug":"copycat-defender-jlr-has-raided-byds-offices-over-the-boxy-ti7-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2246759","title":{"rendered":"Copycat Defender? JLR has raided BYD\u2019s offices over the boxy Ti7 SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Court-ordered bailiffs operating on behalf of JLR have raided BYD\u2019s offices in The Netherlands in an ongoing legal row over the similarity of the new BYD Ti7 and the Land Rover Defender 110.<\/p>\n

According to The Times<\/a> the raid was conducted in August, with JLR looking to find documents relating to the stripping down and reverse engineering of a Defender in the seven-seat Ti7\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BYD\u2019s boxy SUV \u2013 which we labelled a \u201cChinese Defender clone\u201d<\/a> back in August (oops) \u2013 is set to go on sale in the UK in January 2027, with prices starting at just \u00a347,995 complete with a plug-in hybrid powertrain. A seven-seat Defender 110 is over \u00a320,000 more, and you can only have the PHEV with a maximum of six seats. See why JLR is worried?<\/p>\n

\u201cJLR does not comment on ongoing legal proceedings,\u201d said a spokesperson from JLR, which also happens to have a joint venture with BYD\u2019s Chinese rival Chery. That tie-up originally allowed Chery to build Jaguars, the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport in China, but it\u2019s now giving the Chinese megacorp the rights to revive the Freelander<\/a> as its own brand, with the 8 SUV set to be sold in Europe and the UK further down the line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyway, we\u2019re told that a Dutch court will decide this week whether BYD has a case to answer over the alleged intellectual property theft. Reckon the looks are too close a match?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Court-ordered bailiffs operating on behalf of JLR have raided BYD\u2019s offices in The Netherlands in an ongoing legal row over the similarity of the new BYD Ti7 and the Land Rover Defender 110. According to The Times the raid was conducted in August, with JLR looking to find documents relating to the stripping down and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2246759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}