Not long after buying his used Lexus in 2003, Mark Pinnock discovered that the luxury sedan’s motor sometimes raced on its own, twice causing fender-benders. A mechanic friend told him it was a quirk of its powerful eight-cylinder engine.
What Pinnock didn’t know was that the car, manufactured by Toyota Motor Corp., had a checkered history — it had prompted the first of what would become a series of federal investigations into mysterious acceleration in Toyota-made cars.
Seemed like a good place to use this:
The car caused fender benders on its own? Oh, I beg to differ. Not paying attention caused the fender benders. Even if - and that's a mighty big if - the car did accelerate suddenly on its own, I don't buy the second accident. That's blaming the car for your own inattention, which, IMHO, casts doubt on whether the first accident was the car's fault as well - or simply someone trying to blame a fender bender on Toyota rather than their own absentmindedness.
No word on whether the Lexus tried to strangle occupants with the seat belt, though...
That is all.
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Aw, man! After that movie came out, I so wanted one of those. '58 Plymouth Fury.
Hell, I just realized I still do!
A very good friend of mine has a 1958 Plymouth Belvedere made up *JUST* like Christine.
I need to get pics...
This Toyota thing is going to get out of hand for awhile....
Check this story out:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589090,00.html
Some people will use this to their advantage, which will cause people that do have a real issue to not be taken seriously I think.
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