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Bentley Designer Accuses Lincoln of Stealing Sedan’s Styling
The big, broad-shouldered Continental is trimmed in large slabs of shiny chrome and has a silhouette that sweeps back to sleek LED tail lamps.
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Ford Motor Co. is firing back in an escalating war of words over the parentage of the design of its new Lincoln Continental. The chief designer of tony Bentley Motors Ltd. has accused Lincoln’s designer of copying his style.
“Do you want us to send the product tooling,” Bentley Chief Designer Luc Donckerwolke wrote on the Facebook page of Lincoln styling chief David Woodhouse, suggesting that Lincoln could use the factory tools to stamp out a replica of Bentley’s design.