Automotive News: Shelby GT350 Owners Are Ready To Burn The Blue Oval At The Stake, Uber Self-Driving Car Tests Resume Three Days After Crash
Shelby GT350 Owners Are Ready To Burn The Blue Oval At The Stake
The Ford Shelby GT350 was Ford’s answer to the new Camaro Z/28 and the car Ford enthusiasts had been waiting for. It came with more aggressive exterior styling that reduced aerodynamic drag, a new front splitter, angled ducts in the grille, a vent on the hood, and real vents in the lower fascia that help to keep the front brakes cool under heavy load. It even had a belly pan to help increase air flow through. And, Ford even replaced the 5.0-liter with a 5.2-liter flat-plane crank V-8 that delivers an awesome 526 horsepower and 429 pound-feet of torque. So, it’s got the credentials of a track-ready car and was marketed as such, but a bunch of owners of this “track-ready” car say it’s not track ready at all and seek financial compensation from the blue oval for being duped into thinking it was.
So, how are these owners looking to get compensation from Ford? Well, they’ve tapped into firm Hagens Berman for representation, who has since filed a suit against Ford in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida. For those of you who have been sleeping the past decade, this is the same firm that secured a $1.6 billion settlement against Toyota over a concealed defect, lead the litigation against GM for its ignition switch defects, and has taken the helm of various lawsuits against Volkswagen and Mercedes for the use of emissions-cheating software. There’s no telling what will actually happen as a result of the lawsuit, but Hagens Berman has a good record when it comes to tackling automakers, so I suspect at least something good will come from the lawsuit. After all, you can’t market a vehicle as track ready when it really isn’t track ready, right? read more »
Uber Self-Driving Car Tests Resume Three Days After Crash
Wreck in Arizona had temporarily halted automated-car program
Ride-hailing company testing vehicles in three U.S. cities
Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving cars were back on public roads Monday, three days after a crash in Arizona put the company’s testing program on hold.
The ride-hailing company resumed testing in San Francisco Monday morning, and planned to restart the program in Tempe, Arizona, and Pittsburgh later in the day, according to an Uber spokeswoman.
One of Uber’s Volvo self-driving SUVs was involved in a high-impact crash on Friday in Tempe. The vehicle was not responsible for the incident and there were no injuries, Tempe police said. Another car failed to yield for the Uber car, causing the autonomous vehicle to flip on its side, according to the police report. read more »
