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Certified Dangerous: Used Cars' Airbags
An investigation of 1650 consumer complaints about the failure of airbags to deploy during car accidents such as head-on collisions, rollovers and broadside crashes. Some airbags are not replaced when the vehicle is being fixed after an accident, leaving the driver more succeptible to injury.
Tags: airbag; safety; t-bone; traffic; ford; gm; honda; kia; mitsubishi; nissan; volkswagen; auto accidents
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The Sonic Deal
This series of reports uncovers deceptive sale tactics and incomplete refund settlements given by America's third largest car retailer: Sonic Automotive. Evidence reveals that lenders falsified loan applications and gave out loans that borrowers couldn't afford. Even after being ordered to distribute refunds to slighted customers, Sonic Automotive avoided paying up to almost 7000 victims because of a flawed process.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Sonic Automotive; Clearwater Mitsubishi; Clearwater Toyota; refund; settlement; deceit; loan; financing; bank fraud; Tom Gallagher; department of financial services; payback
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Take and Give. Condemnation is used to hand one business property to another. Tactic by local governments seeking jobs and taxes is protested as unfair. BMW Yes, Mitsubishi No.
According to the article, "Local and state governments are now using their awesome powers of condemnation, or eminent domain, in a kind of corporate triage: grabbing property from one private business to give to another. A device used for centuries to smooth the way for public works such as roads, and later to ease urban blight has become a marketing tool for governments seeking to lure bigger business."
Tags: eminent domain; condemn; condemnation; property; owners; buildings; public works; big business; ownership; land
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Fake Sales Mar Mitsubishi Total
"The articles detailed the disclosures and admissions by Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America national and regional managers and dealers that the automaker had fraudulently inflated its U.S. vehicle sales numbers, in order to achieve volume targets and overstate the health of the company. The falsifications used actual vehicle identification numbers of Mitsubishi cars and trucks later purchased by unknowing consumers. When the vehicles were legitimately purchased, the original fake sales were not reversed, meaning thousands of Mitsubishi buyers had been defrauded out of months of warranty coverage." This story increased investigation by the Florida Attorney General and lead to a 15-count subpoena against Mitsubishi. In addition, it "lead to several states' opening investigations of Mitsubishi's questionable sales practices."
Tags: Automobiles; Mitsubishi; retail delivery records; warranty
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Abuse on the Line
This story chronicles the accusations of sexual harassment from female employees of the Normal, Ill. Mitsubishi plant and the ensuing litigation.
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The Progressive investigates the persistence of sexual harassment for women performing in blue-collar industry jobs. In a class action suit against Mitsubishi women workers complained of everything from groping, crude graffiti and derogatory epithets to male coworkers masturbating while watching female workers. Union response and support of women in blue-collar jobs has been inadequate. (August 1996)
Tags: Colatosti Misrepresented Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) AFL-CIO 3 pgs.