Tired of Each Other. / John Greenwald.
by Greenwald, John; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 72Business. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Firestone Tire & Rubber Company | Ford Motor Company | Automobiles -- Design and construction | Product recall | Product safety | Sport utility vehicles | TiresDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the most spectacular corporate crack-up in recent memory, consumers hardly knew whom to trust or root for last week [May 2001]. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe brought the tire-maker's 95-year-old business with Ford Motor Co. to a screeching halt over what Lampe called 'significant concerns' about the safety of the Ford Explorer. One day later, Ford said it would replace 13 million [tires]...that were excluded from Firestone's sweeping 6.5 million tire recall last August [2000]." (TIME) This article examines the disintegration of the corporate relationship between Ford and Firestone following serious automobile accidents attributed to the tires on certain Ford vehicles.
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Originally Published: Tired of Each Other, June 4, 2001; pp. 50+.
"In the most spectacular corporate crack-up in recent memory, consumers hardly knew whom to trust or root for last week [May 2001]. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe brought the tire-maker's 95-year-old business with Ford Motor Co. to a screeching halt over what Lampe called 'significant concerns' about the safety of the Ford Explorer. One day later, Ford said it would replace 13 million [tires]...that were excluded from Firestone's sweeping 6.5 million tire recall last August [2000]." (TIME) This article examines the disintegration of the corporate relationship between Ford and Firestone following serious automobile accidents attributed to the tires on certain Ford vehicles.
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