VW loses fight to stop Suzuki using 'GTI'

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Volkswagen has lost one of the battles in its handbags war with Suzuki, when a court decided that Suzuki could use the 'GTI' name for the Swift. VW claimed it would confuse people, but the court pointed out that someone looking for a Golf GTI is hardly likely to be bamboozled into buying a Swift GTI by accident.

The idea that VW could trademark GTI seems odd to us. We reckon there have been loads of cars that have used the GTI badge over the years, so we asked our tame anorak to check it out (we keep one in a little data-lined cell for instances such as these).

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