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That will involve leveraging its joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Jiangling Motors to “double down” on Ford’s commercial vehicle business and establish an export hub for affordable EVs and ICE commercial vehicles for markets like Australia and Mexico.

In fact, the judge further ruled that Jiangling had to stop manufacturing, marketing and sales of the LandWind X7, and compensate Land Rover for any models that had been sold already.

Jiangling appealed to China’s equivalent of the Supreme Court, but Land Rover prevailed there, too; the court also invalidated patents Jiangling had filed in China for the LandWind.

Yet Jiangling ended up getting away with selling a significant number of LandWinds in China.

The Evoque designer Gerry McGovern said that the concept featured proprietary “future technology” and that the LandWind X7’s manufacturer, Jiangling Motors, was creating “customer confusion” by bringing a production version to market before JLR could build the Evoque.