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Old Dec 22, 2002 | 09:41 PM
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I can't believe you guys are arguing about car copying another car's exterior look. There's only so many places you can put a light in certain position and stretch it a certain way. This goes for all other parts of the cars as well. No car exterior is original if you come down to the basic. you start w/ wheels, chasis, lights, and doors. you stretch a little here and squeeze a little there. Maybe they can try to be a little more different w/ a sport car but w/ a van, truck, or suv, there's not much variation you can do it w/ it.

For this argument, I think they just took the old Sienna and stretch the rear lights and make it bigger. You can say that the Odyssey did that too. Those who were making an argument that the side glass is straight like the Odyssey, then I can say the straight and pointy at the bottom rear while the Odyssey is not, so they are different. My point is that for a minivan, they can't make it too different looking or else it probably won't sell very well. They all copy off each other and make their own variation.
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