On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Magnulus wrote:

> I would have thought this has something to do with the Firestone tire
> problems. That, IMO, would have been something worth suing over,
> because they were compromising tire life to get better "smooth"
> handling.

....which they were allowed to do by lax, backwards US "safety" regulations
that essentially say "Sure, fine, build whatever, we'll only sit up and
notice if people start dying".

The rest-of-world ECE version of the Explorer had no rollover problems.