Car makers spend £billions perfecting their new cars. They spend literally years in development and with the millions of miles that will flow under the wheels of hundreds of prototypes, it's a wonder they have any faults at all. Happily, while robots now build cars, they're still designed by humans and we still make mistakes no computer is going to pick up. In fact, the entire history of the automobile is strewn with the corpses of cars that came to market complete with a potentially fatal flaw already lurking under the metal...
Skoda Estelle : consumer groups were so appalled by its manners they persuaded the Department of Transport to investigate what they saw as its wayward nature
