You are too young to remember the days prior to the lemon laws, Ford had come out with a statement to the media about how Ford customers would always buy Ford no matter what, so they changed their built in vehicle life from 100,000mi to 50,000 mi(or there abouts), viola, Ford's customer base doubled since their customer would now have to buy a car so much earlier. The Wall Street Journal touted it as a stroke of financial genius. GM followed suit, and the long lines of customers with relatively new but non-functional cars outside of dealerships was catastrophic.
(e.g. One automatic transmission was set to wear out at 40,000 mi, no matter the treatment, and it could not be repaired.....viola, a new car buyer.)
Like the folks that survived the depression not trusting banks, so I have a built in aprehensiveness about the trustworthiness of major corporations. It's my failing.
Deep inside I know that Magnusson-Moss or no DC has enough money to prevail if they want to. It reminds me of every bad gambler who has a system to beat the house, but they never do.
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