New Chrysler Liability Warning Label?

by Robert Farago

Published: July 3rd, 2009

Sean Kane of safetyresearch.net gave us the heads-up on a move to put warning labels on products manufactured by pre-C-11 Chrysler.

WARNING! This vehicle was produced prior to the date when the Chrysler bankruptcy was approved. If you buy this vehicle and are injured or killed, even if your injuries were caused by the manufacturer, you or your survivors will not be able to recover your losses by taking action against the manufacturer. If your passengers are injured or killed, even if their injuries were caused by the manufacturer, they and their survivors will not be able to recover their losses by taking action against the manufacturer.

No, really. The Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (CARS, again) is petitioning the Federal trade Commission (FTC) to require New Chrysler to affix warning labels on pre-C11 build cars telling prospective buyers about the “unique liabilities” differentiating Old/New ChryCo products.

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U mad scientist on Jul 04, 2009
And not a peep from the MSM. Is Limbaugh correct that the Dems control the MSM? The MSM are owned by the corps who expect quid pro quo for their monetary contributions. This includes Limbaugh who was pushing GM when they paid him to do so. It's also true that democrats have become increasingly like republicans in embracing corporatist values. This is because much of middle american is indoctrinated from birth by the MSM to embrace corporatist values and political parties do nothing if not cater to norms. For example, notice here how corps have managed to deflect criticism to their political puppets/scapegoats and by extension the representative "government" that is supposed to keep that kind of power in check. It's somewhat subtle and assuredly never gets noticed by weaker minds. -- The chrysler sticker issue is totally trumped up. The gov will likely end up paying the few reasonable claims out of taxpayer monies just like it did on the warranty claims.

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TireGuy on Jul 04, 2009

No Problem. The car as such will be discounted anyway. And the rest of the product liability claims is generally anyway frivolous in the USA. Wo, where is the problem?

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IDANECK on Jul 06, 2009

@bluecon: I believe you answered your question with the second line. GE owns NBC/Universal and all it's 24-hour news channels. That's quite a bit of news coverage from the MSM right there.

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U mad scientist on Jul 06, 2009

The original TARP contained all sorts of tax subsidies for unrelated industries. http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/british-rum-maker-got-27-billion-payo Stuff like this is nothing unusual. Of course the companies (who just ponied up the quid, for the quo) try to pin it on politicians, who are only acting as you would expect given apathetic and ill informed voters.

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