Bike messengers beware.
Posted on 09/24/2010 8:23:25 AM PDT by Gordon Pym
BERLIN (AP) — Luxury carmaker Bentley says it’s recalling 820 cars worldwide over fears that its famous “Winged B” hood ornament could injure people in an accident because it might not properly retract.
Bentley Motors’ European head office in Berlin said Thursday the recall affects 620 cars in the United States and Canada and 200 in Europe who added the raised hood ornament as an option on Arnage, Brooklands and Azure models made between October 2006 and March 2009. The company says no injuries have been reported but a dealer noticed the spring mechanism under the ornament has a tendency to corrode and might not always function properly.
Bentley, owned by Volkswagen AG, will replace the mechanism free and says the work takes about an hour to complete.
The peasants just need to get out of the way.
Calling Rolls Royce...
It is a FEATURE, not a bug!
Better some good old blunt force trauma than a skewerin. LOL
Ask the current regime about that 3Nov2010
It’s a hood ornament...in order to impale a pedestrian wouldn’t that require the pedestrian to also be hit by the car?
Sounds like a solution to the excess population.
I say, have you any grey poupon?
BTW, that was my Scrooge impression.
Although I creamed one pretty good a few years ago, I generally try to avoid pedestrians. My Scion xB has no hood ornament but the guy still spent a few months in the hospital.
I guess this puts the Kibosh on my razor Blades on the bumper idea to deter pesky panhandlers.
>>I wonder what they would do with the gunsight ornaments on the old Buicks or the Peirce Arrows from the 20’s and 30’s<< When I first read the headline I thought it was a reprint of some 60’s article. Use google images to check out the hood ornaments on 50’s and early 60’s american cars. Lots and LOTS of pointy rockets and stuff.
They got rid of them for exactly this reason. It was actually big news at the time.
A side note is that the same thinking that allowed people to believe that this was no big deal also aided the thinking behind letting Pintos explode when rear ended. That is, it was a foregone conclusion that these things were only a problem if you were in an accident - and that was using the product beyond its design limitations, so there was no “responsibility” for the outcome.
Bike messengers beware.
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Ahh... “Death Race 2000”, a “good” bad movie, and a classic of it’s time...:^)
Bentley hood ornament
I loved Death Race 2000. It’s a terrific B movie. We’re still using things from that movie today... specifically the points. LOL
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