Do you think this should be sent to the Mother Club in England? A
Ford! They should not get away with that.
"Safety Fast"
Terry

--- In mgcarclub@yahoogroups.com, "caynak31" <caynak31@...> wrote:
>
> just to let everybody know that the great mg slogan of "safty fast"
> has been blatantly stolen. what dastardly villain would do such a
> low down thing? look no further than the ford motor company
> advertising department. all around chicagoland there are safty fast
> billboards touting such wonderful,small,exciting,and exotic foriegn
> cars like the new ford taurus.
> i am really wondering if this slogan was ever trademarked or
> copyrighted back in the day. if it was,the new chinese owners of
> everything mg could in fact seek legal action. i have heard of
> something similar to this with a tire type that wasn't made for 40
> years (the tire company wasn't even in buisness for 30 years, but
> somebody bought the rights to all the company's products).
> i hope it was tm or c and i hope that ford gets their pants sued off
> over this. the money will help the new owners build their new
> manufacturing plant in oaklahoma.
> this pilfering of mg's slogan was downright stupid. any idiot with
> dial-up and yahoo search engine (is ford hurting so bad they didn't
> pay their internet bills?) can see that the slogan is attached to mg
> and that mg is still in buisness/coming back to usa.
>
> shame on you ford motor company.
>