recalls
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News Featured Stories News Releases Safety Stats- June 01, 2022 541
Recently Ford had a recall of around 350,000 vehicles for being susceptible to catching fire under the hoods, 310,00 trucks with defective airbags, and 464 electric Mustang Mach-E SUVs with software malfunctions.
As far-reaching as that sounds, it pales in comparison to some of the more notorious recalls in automaker history–some of which took many lives.
Here are four of the worst in history:
Ford, Firestone, and Failing Tires
In 2000, Firestone recalled 14.4 million tires on Ford vehicles after an investigation revealed almost a whole decade of thread separation and blowouts. This recall came...
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News News Releases Safety Community- June 03, 2016 191
While dealers selling new cars are prohibited from selling vehicles with known defects, rental companies are not legally mandated to do the same. Until now. Part of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015 requires rental car agencies with fleets over 35 vehicles to fix any and all open safety defects. The FAST act became effective June 1, 2016.
“When a family picks up a rental car on vacation, they should be able to expect it is free of any known safety defect,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “I thank Congress and the safety advocates who helped turn this...
