There’s a story about a federal probe (<Hey, a “Probe”: also a Ford model!) into allegations of sticking accelerators in some Ford sedans. They really ought to replay the old Bugatti strategy of saying: “I make my cars to go, not to stop!” Then they’d surely get away without having to fix anything, right? (Apparently Bugatti did! And Henry Ford might have too, back in the old days.)
Here’s a web page that gives the account of the Bugatti brakes quote:
And here’s the Ford accelerator story from the Washington Post:
