You’ve seen this before, the Chevrolet Cruze hatchback that was shown at the Paris Motor Show, and here’s the trademark filings from GM with the European patent office. These images confirm that the production model retains the concept’s shape and most of its design.
The front end features the same lower bumper design as the Cruze sedan with round fog lamps, instead of the straight line of LED driving lamps on the concept. The rear bumper design shown here is also more cluttered than the concept’s. The showcar had very distinctive head and tail lamps; we’re not sure if these will survive production.
This global car will wear a Chevrolet bowtie in most markets except a few. GM’s Aussie outpost Holden designed this car, and it will be sold Down Under with a Holden badge. Click here to see our live images from Paris. The rest of the patent filing images are after the jump.
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i guess it’ll be prettier n sportier than cruze sedan
Can a patent be made public?
Patents are usually accessible to the public. If you mean can a patent be declared open to public copying or non-profit copying, it depends on the patent holder.
Of course. How shall companies know what’s patented in the world?
mcm aveo hatch..,
Looks like it should be at least as big as the Mitsubishi ASX, probably bigger.
Change the grill design abit larr, make it simpler …..overall it looks better than sedan
They filed a patent or trademark for what?
I don’t see anything special compared to other cars already available?
This trademark filings are nonsense anyway. Recently Mercedes lost a lawsuit against a chinese company which copied the ‘Smart ForTwo’ and sold it in Europe…
dont know why…it reminds me of impreza, mazda3 & lexus ct200h
Looks ugly
Since nobody will copy it due to the ugliness, they patent it. So they’ll say that nobody copying it because it was patented and not because it is ugly .. heh..heh.. just joking.