Re: Oh, my. What a waste.

on 5/6/2008 6:19 PM Jim Yanik said the following:
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>>>> http://tinyurl.com/448jve
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>>> Good grief! They should have offered them at crazy knock down prices
>>> if people would agree to signing a waiver over future reliability.
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>>> Chippie.
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>> The Japanese manufacturer did the correct thing. While it does seem
>> like such a waste, there
>> was no way that that they could be certain (to their satisfaction)
>> that they would be selling vehicles
>> that did not have inherent defects, some undoubtedly life-threatening.
>> They could easily argue that their own standards will not permit them
>> to knowlingly sell such vehicles
>> at any price.
>> But the main reason is prob ably legal; the idea that a buyer may be
>> willing to understake any risks by
>> signing off on a waiver indemnifying Mazda from any damages or claims
>> on the surface sounds reasonable,
>> until you stop to consider that the wife or family members or any
>> dependents of the
>> injured (the one who signed the waiver) could easily bring action
>> against them despite the signed waiver.
>> This wasteful action is a result of our litigation-crazy lawyer
>> infested society in which we live.
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> just tilting the car isn't going to cause "life-threatening" defects.
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> Now,if a car got soaked,that's a different matter.It's not that hard to 
> find the ones that actually got dunked.
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> I'd gladly take one of the dry cars for the cost of shipping and waive 
> liability.
> They could also have donated the dry cars to poor people who needed a
car 
> to get to work.
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If one of those poor people got killed or badly injured due to something 
in the car failing, the lawyers will insure that those people, or their 
survivors, won't be poor anymore.
Mazda figured it was cheaper to crush the cars than to have to pay a 
multi million dollar law suit settlement. "They knew, or should have 
known, that there could be a failure" is the basis for a winnable
lawsuit..

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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