• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People shopping for an EV aren’t going to like the idea of steering wheels coming off or trim flying off at highway speeds.

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      3 months ago

      EV or not, people don’t want to buy unsafe vehicles, period. Any brand synonymous with poor quality dies

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        3 months ago

        I mean, the Ford Pinto didn’t kill Ford, but Ford also had decades of company history at that point.

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          3 months ago

          Ford will take a while to die, they’ve always stockpiled a lot of rainy day cash to weather out bad spells. As you’ve said they had plenty of successful decades and successful cars. They even had successful cars at the same time as the pinto so it wasn’t really a problem

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      3 months ago

      Right. So would it be helpful or harmful to their sales to have a list where one of the items read like:

      “Steering wheel comes off: fixed”