I was too young to remember the details concerning the gas tank explosions regarding some US company trucks — Chevy? I do think the automaker was hauled in front of congress to explain the design flaw. How does that case compare to what’s happening here?
That would be the case of the Ford Pinto. The difference here is that there was no Government ownership of Automakers and NO police state raids.
That was a staged malfunction. NBC news had to admit that they had placed explosives in the trucks to make them blow up on camera.
Pintos back in the 1970’s had that problem. Is that who you were thinking of or was it more recent?