What Do You Think?

[xrdreaming]

It must be Ford's fault, they didn't print anywhere in the owners manual that the driver must be awake to operate the vehicle.

[muzza420]

It must be Ford's fault, they didn't print anywhere in the owners manual that the driver must be awake to operate the vehicle. 

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there has been some silly cases in the past few years that dont even make sense.

maybe he fell asleep cuz of some airconditioning problem or somthin I am sure the jury wouldnt ignore that he fell asleep while driving..

muzza

[oldraven]

There was a huge lawsuit regarding Firestone Tyres that were fitted from the factory. They had a tendancy to spontaneously blowout their sidewalls.  Cost ford hundreds of millions and pretty much ruined Firestone!

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Actually it wasn't the sidewalls. The tread was seperating from the tire. Both Bridgestone and Ford were fully aware of the faulty tires, but put them on Explorers anyway.

And the Taurus is already gone. The Five Hundred has already replaced it. And the Taurus sold extremelly well, for well over a decade. But it was only updated twice in that time, and was left behind by the Chevy Impala (another FWD) and both cars suffered at the hands of the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. DCX's LX series of RWD's (300, Magnum, Charger) was the final nail in the coffin.

Sadly, the 500 comes with an anemic 203hp 3.0L V6. It is available with AWD and a CVT, but most will be a 6-spd auto. They've already stopped trying to market it, after about six months.

[sixfan]

Same liability kept piper and cessna so busy in court defending lawsuits that they stopped building planes untill 20 years later someone put a sunset clause on liability.

Sadly Australia is moving in the same direction. Here at work if some rockape can think of a new and creative way to injure himself, then prove that we haddn't told him not to do it, I can go to jail. There needs to be a common sense clause....

as for the 500, that's one ugly sucker!

[YOB POM]

Just like the story of the woman who sued Mc Donalds when she spilt hot coffee over herself, and the one about the woman who sued a vehicle manufacturer when she set cruise control in her campervan, and went for a walk in the back of the van which rolled, this is probably not true.

There is a web site that isssues awards for thew most ridiculous law suits around the World. None of them are true, they are to illustrate just how gullible the media and the general public are!

Watch Media Watch on the ABC people.

[C.S.I]

Seems common sense counts for nothing nowadays.

The laws of natural attrition seem to no longer apply either.

It's ALWAYS someone elses fault that your a dikchead.

[LightningXR6T]

Sounds stupid, but this brings me to another issue!

A lot of us are having issues with brake problems etc! I personally feel that the standard brakes on a T are not suitable for it's standard performance abilities.

This is also made worse once the T has been modified. I know after market systems are available, but brake performance should match engine performance STANDARD!

These brakes are probably fine on an XT or a XR6, but on a T I believe far from adequite!

In my opinion anyway!

[Xtreme F6]

what a joke, no wonder car manufacteres are going broke. DUmb sh*t like this

[GlennAUII]

  Only in America...

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I agree..

Some people are such greedy bastards..

If you lost your son, no amount of money would make it better.. I cannot believe how stupid some people are. I don't know who is more stupid, the idiots suing ford, or the idiots that have ordered ford to pay all that money...

[YOB POM]

Or the idiots that believe everything the read in the paper, or forums.