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...warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four-wheel slide and then a 360[degree] flip...
There's no jealousy like show jealousy, as NATHAN LANE and MATTHEW BRODERICK will no doubt discover Sunday night. Not only is The Producers up for 15 Tony Awards, but Lane and Broderick, who star in the musical, are hosts of the ceremony too. "Way back when they asked us to do it, nobody had been nominated yet," says Broderick, "so it wasn't like 'Oh, you've got 15 nominations, why don't you also host it?'" Aware that some may be rooting against The Producers juggernaut, Broderick says, "Well, we can't win all of them"--pause--"because...
...That was a rock-bottom standard, since the image of the Bronco II continued to worsen. In June 1989 a Consumer Reports article titled "How Safe Is the Bronco II?" rated its handling as poor in a test that simulated rapid lane changes. The Consumers Union publication advised "prudent buyers" to steer clear of it. According to an original analysis prepared for TIME by University of Michigan statistician Hans Joksch, an expert in automotive statistics, the Explorer has had approximately the same rate of fatal rollovers as the Bronco...
...Consumer Reports results stunned Ford engineers, who acknowledged in a memo that passing "the Consumers Union test became an implicit requirement for Explorer due to the potential for adverse publicity." The memo was referring to a double-lane-change test that Consumers Union used to evaluate an automobile's real-world maneuverability...
...warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four-wheel slide and then a 360[degree] flip...