Was the Bronco II a safe car, a safe vehicle, from a rollover standpoint?
I think you could ask me that question about any car at all, especially the SUV, and the answer that I have to give you is that all cars that are offered for sale in America have to meet the federal motor vehicle safety standards. If those standards are valid and if they are real, it means that any car that comes off of the assembly line in America is safe. … In those areas that are measured, it is safe. Now, if there is some unmeasured area, that’s something else. … The federal government has been unable to develop a rollover standard. There is no standard measurement that we have that can tell you whether any vehicle is safe, from a rollover standpoint. So since you have no standard, since you don’t really know what it takes to make a vehicle roll over and not roll over. … You know lots of things, you know if it’s higher and the center of gravity is off the ground higher, certainly it’s going to be less stable than a low center of gravity. But there’s so many things that we don
