In car design, it does happen that various designers have different ideas and methods, but still all end up designing very similar products which can look like copies.
An example: there aren't many ways to mould a chassis. All (injection-)moulded chassis will always look similar. It's just the way the tooling and the process works.
Another example: there aren't many ways to attach a shock to a control arm ... .. that work.
Also, whenever someone has a great idea for a design and thinks "Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before?", there's a 95% chance that someone HAS though of it before, and either couldn't get it to work in the real world, or it was expensive or impossible to manufacture. For every new feature that's out there, 20 other designs/ideas have seen the bottom of the waste bin.
That being said, I do think 'Team C' stands for Team CopyCat :-)
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