That looks familiar??

[Puch]

Do you think Rugged Ridge took a mold of Combat off road and called it their own?
At least try to have a little originality.

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[Rahkmalla]

Remember back in school when you had a paper due and not enough time to write it, so you'd copy a source and then reorder some words and then bust out a thesaurus?

That's what this looks like.

 

[Moby]

Actually, I’m guessing it‘s the same third-party supplier, like so many other things.

 

[Reddog]

Actually, not surprising at all. You don't think Quadratec and Rough Country and many more suppliers all have their own factories to make their brand specific products, do you? Whirlpool makes most of the washing machines and other home products today and tags them with other companies brands. Same thing here I expect. I have purchased many items for Jeeps over the years from different companies and many of them look surprisingly like other companies' brands. I wont even address the Chinese knockoff market and how they steal the design of everything we make and copy it for sale under their brands. But you have to be careful with all of this because a product made here is not the same product as one made in China or India. It's the new normal I guess. Kind of defeats originality I guess.

 

[sharpsicle]

Not really. Same general shape, but that's because they're both oval tail lights. The lights themselves, marker location, mold shape, mold material, fitment style, light mounting, etc. are all different.

In fact, the more I look at it the more differences I see than I do similarities.

 

[HorneyBadger]

But they are ugly!!!

 

[DoctorDecoy]

Actually, not surprising at all. You don't think Quadratec and Rough Country and many more suppliers all have their own factories to make their brand specific products, do you? Whirlpool makes most of the washing machines and other home products today and tags them with other companies brands. Same thing here I expect. I have purchased many items for Jeeps over the years from different companies and many of them look surprisingly like other companies' brands. I wont even address the Chinese knockoff market and how they steal the design of everything we make and copy it for sale under their brands. But you have to be careful with all of this because a product made here is not the same product as one made in China or India. It's the new normal I guess. Kind of defeats originality I guess.

Rough Country does produce their own, even cuts their own boxes for shipping.

 

[Reddog]

Rough Country does produce their own, even cuts their own boxes for shipping.

I stand corrected, but the focus of my post is valid.

 

[DoctorDecoy]

I stand corrected, but the focus of my post is valid.

I do agree with the premise of your post though

 

[Jerhemi]

They look better than Combat's... the grommet mounting of the light sucks though.

 

[Jefe1018]

They look similar, but not the same product. Remember they are all trying to accomplish the same thing in moving away from the purely squared tail lights from the OEM, making contour with the body lines and not sticking out too far. Really, like the analogy a few posts before mind, if we are all told to write a paper by our teachers and given access to the same resources and have to write it on the same subject, they should all be the same with a few variations.

 

[Puch]

Do you think Rugged Ridge took a mold of Combat off road and called it their own?
At least try to have a little originality.

You guys are funny. I can clearly see that they are not identical. Among other small details, one is aluminum and one is plastic.
All I’m saying is, if you think that a designer at RR didn’t sit down and use combat’s design, tweak it with very little effort, make it cheaper (plastic) and say “hey look at what I made”, you’re crazy. There’s no way someone just accidentally came up with a design so similar. RR used very little imagination to create their own design.
Do i blame them for taking the easy way out? If you’re trying to make an easy buck…no.
Does this kind of stuff happen all the time? Yes.
If you like the design you have two options now. One is higher quality and you have to pay more and one is a cheap piece of plastic. Budget ver higher quality. I guess that’s a good thing??

 

[HorneyBadger]

but they are still ugly......... even with the issues with the 22's I still like my Oracles over most other brands.

 

[Trippin01]

One factory and several sticker companies.

 

[Animal]

I mean scroll thru this thread and see how is it is to accidentally come up with a similar design...


https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/building-my-own-flush-tail-lights/

There's plenty of limitations that can cause this. I don't think at any point he's attempted to directly copy another flush taillight but he's ended up with designs close to oracles at times and using oval lights close to combat and rugged ridges design. When there are limitations like mounting points and body lines and you're striving to reach the same goal, this is going to happen.

I have a book about woodworking bench design, The Anarchist's Workbench and the author notes several work bench innovations appearing across different cultures that had no interaction as far as historical records provide yet developed the same technology. It happens everyday.

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