I don't want to accuse PD & RedBull of plagiarism.

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But I was watching Top Gear and the British Caparo T1 popped up and it looks remarkable similar to the Red Bull X1.

Caparo T1
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Red Bull X1
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Now the T1 has a similar name to the X1,
The Caparo came out in 2007.

Make your own mind up :)
 
Not this again. There have been plenty of threads on this already, the X1 is not copying anything. It's using the most aerodynamic shape known to many today, which is basically an F1 racer with covered wheel arches. As Vettel himself explains in the intro video to the X challenge, the wheels are the biggest causes of drag in open wheel cars.

If that is plagiarism so is pretty much every car in existence.
 
This has been discussed a lot.

To put it simply, they look similar because they both set out to achieve the same goal, which was to be the fastest car possible, the only difference being that the Caparo had a few restricions.

There's most likely no copying involved, it just the fastest shape aerodynamically. It's the same reason that all F1 cars look nearly identicle, not because it's compulsory for then to look like that, but because it's the fastest shape possible whilst keeping within the restrictions.
 
Hm. It could've been conscious plagiarism, or it could've been unconscious plagiarism (that is to say, Adrian Newey may have seen the design a long time ago, forgot about it, and his subconscious mind helped him arrive at a similar design.)

It could also just be an uncanny similarity, with the designers of both cars reaching similar conclusions on how to optimize aerodynamic efficiency on a car.
 
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