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My husband’s 1 year old Ford F150 p/u ran away with us and we crashed into the back of a car. Floor mats were not the problem. It happened 3 different times, twice on one day. He traded it in that day. After checking it out the dealership said nothing was wrong with it and sold it to some unsuspecting sucker. It took me a couple of weeks to get over the shock of that day, glad no one was hurt (yet).

What you didn't hear during the Toyota mess, was that there were just as many reports of American cars with *exactly* the same sort of problem. But they didn't get the press.

Just like the "issue" with Firestone tires back in the 90's. Firestone tires on SUV's actually had a ~lower~ failure rate than several other brands of tires. But Firestones were the ones that got the press. Why? 'cuz they had the contract for the Ford Explorer, and Ford sold a lot of those. It was also right about when the "evil SUV" started becoming the enemy du jour.

Turns out that all the tire failures on Explorers were pretty much in the summer... in a geographic band across Arizona... New Mexico... Texas... Louisiana... you get the idea. Plus: all of the tires were underinflated, and all the vehicles were heavily loaded.

Not mystery... really.

I read the earlier post on this thread and it appears that no one believes run away vehicles were anything other than driver error. I am here to tell you that the engine of my husbands Ford truck started roaring when he was driving under 30 miles and hour. It didn't stop and we ran into the back of a car. He had to shut off the engine to make it stop completely. The first time it happened he was on the highway and he discounted it and thought he had accidentally set the cruise control, even though he never uses the cruise control. It was NOT the floor mats.

“What you didn’t hear during the Toyota mess, was that there were just as many reports of American cars with *exactly* the same sort of problem. But they didn’t get the press.”

That isn’t true in the least.

Where are you getting your misinformation?