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**DirtyD** · 04-02-2014, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT

GM will get passed it just like Ford did with the Edsel and Pinto and a number of cars Chrysler had to recall.

Oh, no doubt, but they aren't going to come out of it clean by any means.

**Grandpa** · 04-02-2014, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by DirtyD

Oh, no doubt, but they aren't going to come out of it clean by any means.

Consumers have a short memory and attention span. A few cheap sales, extreme marketing and it will be all but forgotten by the general public in no time.

**DirtyD** · 04-02-2014, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT

Consumers have a short memory and attention span. A few cheap sales, extreme marketing and it will be all but forgotten by the general public in no time.

Not for the families that lost loved one, it won't.

blownaltered · 04-02-2014, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by DirtyD

Not for the families that lost loved one, it won't.

Ok so 13 families will remember and the rest of the country will move on. It's the way it works, if it doesn't affect you personally you move on. Firestone is still in business and those tires killed a bunch of people.

**DirtyD** · 04-02-2014, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by blownaltered

Ok so 13 families will remember and the rest of the country will move on. It's the way it works, if it doesn't affect you personally you move on. Firestone is still in business and those tires killed a bunch of people.

You do have a point. I was just more or less correcting the "consumer" statement.

**rriddle3** · 04-03-2014, 12:45 AM

I remember that my dad had a '61 Impala that you could take out the ignition key while it was running. Nothing would happen. Of course, that was before ignition and transmission interlocks.

**Grandpa** · 04-02-2014, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by DirtyD

Not for the families that lost loved one, it won't.

I understand what you are saying but it doesn't change the way our society works. The families will now spend years in court buried in paperwork and racking up legal bills only to be forced by the high powered lawyers of GM to settle. They will get a settlement and everyone will go on about their business as usual. Nothing will change from it. /shrug.

**maxpayne** · 04-03-2014, 10:22 AM

Luckily for the families who lost loved ones, it won't cost them a dime out of their own pockets to litigate their respective case and, in these types of cases where liability is pretty much a slam dunk, it will be the families who force GM to settle.

**maxpayne** · 04-10-2014, 12:35 PM

Giving this thread a bump. Thanks guys/gals.