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by maximus-decimus 902 days ago
The Toyota EV also had tires falling off and recent Hyundai/Kia cars were catching on fire because the engine was overheating from the automatic stop/start when you stop. Jeep has transmission issues where theirs cars would go to neutral on their own, which ended up with Anton Yelchin dying at 27 years old crushed against a fence by his own car. I believe Honda has problems with manual transmissions going out of gear while you were driving and just refused to address the problem for a long ass time.

They're all bad. There's a whole scene in the Fight Club movie where they explain every car company will refuse to fix a deadly problem unless they calculate the lawsuits will cost them more than the fix, and I believe it.

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Tires falling off must be a special magical failure. Wheels I’d understand but tires?
It was an English error in this case, but if you're curious, that's how you lose your tires : https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/tire-blows-immediately-aft...
Blown tire. Dude liked speeding and drifting but no clue of physics.