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Fresno teenager Shaela Warkentin's lawsuit attacks Ford Mustang design
Fresno Bee ^
| 5 March 2012
| Tim Sheehan
Posted on 03/07/2012 8:56:41 AM PST by smokingfrog
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Annnd...
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posted on
03/07/2012 9:44:15 AM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: moovova
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posted on
03/07/2012 9:44:16 AM PST
by
rightly_dividing
(You cannot put a gun rack in a Volt !)
To: PowderMonkey
LOL! I like it. If memory serves, when the design was first introduced in the 1960s, wasn't it billed as the "fastback"? Yep, there were various names. Fastback, Sportsroof, 2+2 - all pretty much the same thing. The '79-'93 Mustangs carried the same basic shape in the Hatchback models, too.
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posted on
03/07/2012 9:45:30 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
I don’t know. Look at the skid marks. Looks like the rear end of the Mustang came around while skidding.
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posted on
03/07/2012 9:47:22 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: PeaceBeWithYou
See post 16. I thought so.
I’m surprised the poor girl was not outright killed.
And yet - looking back at that truck and how it appears hardly damaged.....
Just another reminder of what is safer these days.
To: Responsibility2nd
More than likely, I won’t be comfortable in it. I am going this afternoon or tomorrow for a test drive.
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posted on
03/07/2012 9:58:48 AM PST
by
rightly_dividing
(You cannot put a gun rack in a Volt !)
To: Responsibility2nd
Hate to disagree with you but I will. :-)
I own a 2002 Mustang convertible and have no problems backing up with the top up or down. Down does provide a better all around view when backing, but the back window is large enough to see where you’re going.
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posted on
03/07/2012 10:13:53 AM PST
by
Jack Burton007
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
To: smokingfrog
Should be called the 2000 Ford "Mustang"
as opposed to this 1968 Mustang:
or this 2007 Mustang:
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posted on
03/07/2012 10:26:21 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: Jack Burton007; rightly_dividing
I had a '97 Mustang Convertable.
And like the 2002
When the top was up... You had a terrible time looking to see what was coming - from the side - when backing up.
But that is true with all rag tops.
To: TYVets
my sentiments exactly. Even though I don’t care for the lopeback ( how do you crawl back there to clean the inside? Ford has passed the standard battery of safety testing by industry standards.
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posted on
03/07/2012 10:39:28 AM PST
by
SueRae
(Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
To: Charles Martel
and 49&50 chevy and olds was called torpedo.
To: All; smokingfrog
Funny how this goes. It's been a year since the accident. In May when she was getting out of the hospital
she understood the responsible party was the driver under the influence.
I guess insurance payout wasn't "enough" and the at-fault driver wasn't wealthy.
Now she's "seeing" dollar signs in the form of free money from Ford. She just needs a jury and to buy a couple "experts" and she's golden. Unfortunately, the way it works, it doesn't matter how little responsibility the jury could assign Ford.
It's a sham and she should thank Ford engineers, the NTSB, her doctors and God that she only lost her sight. She's not of legal age so someone is clearly influencing her here.
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posted on
03/07/2012 10:57:43 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Santorum: 18-point loss, voted for Sotomayor, proposed $550M on top of $900M Amtrak budget...)
To: Responsibility2nd
While I agree the new Mustang is a thousand percent better than the old one, I do not like the sloper lookAerodynamics
Ford has to meet that federal CAFE standard, doncha know.
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posted on
03/07/2012 11:42:29 AM PST
by
hattend
(Jesus wants me to make churches pay for abortions. - Barack Obama)
To: smokingfrog
a couple of interesting comments at the bee
.... So Ford is supposed to pay because something bad happened in one of their cars? Well I know people that got pregnant in the back seat of Fords maybe they should sue for child support after all Ford should have known it could happen.....
....So if a meth-head breaks into my house and steals a bunch of stuff - and I don’t have adequate insurance to cover it - I get to sue my builder?.....
To: Responsibility2nd
“But that is true with all rag tops.”
So are you saying that all people who wear turbans can’t see behind them and back up very well?
;-D
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posted on
03/08/2012 10:06:16 AM PST
by
Jack Burton007
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
To: smokingfrog
Could have been worse, she could have been driving a Ford Pinto:
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posted on
03/08/2012 10:08:14 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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