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Thank you posters.

I am making a list of these manufactured news items so I can place them under the next breathless report on "fake news". Keep 'em coming.

Here's mine. Remember the "Jeeps roll over on gentle turns"?

Later investigation of the claim showed that the "testers" had to put the Jeeps through 435 runs to get 8 rollovers. A single vehicle was put through 201 runs and accounted for 4 of the rollovers. An investigative engineer at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration later wrote that the tests' validity was "questionable" given their apparently "abnormal test conditions and unrealistic maneuvers," and also found signs that the vehicles' loading had been "manipulated in combination with other vehicle conditions to generate worst-case conditions" for stability.

The "vehicle loading" issue was clarified by the testers' own internal report, which was not disclosed at the time but emerged later in litigation. In their report, the testers say that at the request of Insurance Institute personnel, they had taken the step of _hanging weights in the vehicle's corners_ -- inside the body, where they were not apparent to the camera. (http://walterolson.com - some good stuff there)

Almost forgot THIS CLASSIC.