Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June of 1974 the Louis Neal family was driving near Las Vegas when one of their car's Firestone 500 steel-belted radial tires blew, causing the car to go out of control and crash. Mother and father were killed, and one child was crippled. Five surviving children sued, charging that the tire was defective. Last week Firestone settled out of court for $1.4 million. Far from being an isolated case, the accident is one of a string that has raised unsettling questions about the safety of U.S. steel-belted radials...
...tires have rigid, steel-reinforced belts circling the tire under the tread. The problems are apparently the result of heat buildup within the tire that causes the tread to separate from the steel-belted inner layer and produces blowouts. Firestone, which sold about 23 million of its 500-model radials between 1972 and 1976, recalled 410,000 of them on four occasions because of manufacturing defects...
...Center for Auto Safety, founded by Ralph Nader and Consumers Union, prodded the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate. The agency surveyed 87,000 owners of new cars, asking if they had complaints about tires. In all, 2,226 owners of Firestone tires returned questionnaires, and 46% reported problems. By contrast, the complaint rate for other brands of steel-belted radials was: Goodrich 33%, Goodyear 32%, Uniroyal 32%, General Tire 26% and Michelin less than...
...nation. Though it is one-fourth the size of the U.S. and has a 1,560-mile-long coastline, its population is generally estimated at only about 5 million.* Now, for practically the first time in their history, the Saudis have something worth defending. As Saudi government officials never tire of saying, their country is virtually unprotected. It is probably true that never has so much been defended by so little...
...year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself in the position of a price-conscious buyer who has been out of the market for a few years and then visits a showroom to do some tire kicking. Says he sympathetically, "It's a jolt to see what...