Ford is Being Sued in Federal Court Over The 2019 Ford Ranger

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Ford is Being Sued in Federal Court Over The 2019 Ford Ranger
Ian Thibodeau, The Detroit News Published 4:13 p.m. ET May 7, 2019
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/bu...gs/1131809001/
The lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of Texas resident and 2019 Ranger owner Marshall Lloyd and "on behalf of all others similarly situated" alleges Ford deliberately miscalculated road testing factors during its internal fuel economy test process "in order to report that its vehicles were more efficient than they actually were."

Ford then used the higher fuel economy as a "selling tool," according to the lawsuit. Lloyd purchased his 2019 Ranger "on or about" Feb. 20, just a day before Ford publicly announced it was investigating the vehicle's fuel economy.

The lawsuit cites multiple blogs that claimed to find the Ranger's fuel economy was not close to the EPA rating. Berman and Hilliard also allege that Ford programmed the vehicle's computers "with a mileage cheat device to continue to lie about the vehicle's fuel economy in order to continually conceal the misrepresentation."

Good luck with that fishing trip......

If this was just an error in applying a new recommended road load factor, reported internally and acted upon, then how is that deliberate intention to mislead the public?

Lawyer's trying to get more mileage themselves by accusing Ford of using cheat software in the vehicles, that's very easy to prove or disprove.