I'm going to be honest, I have started losing faith in NHTSA. It seems to be very politically motivated. When American auto makers were struggling and Toyota was leading sales in the US, NHTSA claimed that Toyota's were unsafe and had Toyota recall millions of vehicles for "unintended acceleration". Study after study proved that their was not a single problem with the accelerator, every single case was either driver error (stomping on accelerator instead of brake pedal) or impropely placed floormat that impeded the brake pedal.
Now that the current administration is demanding that all federal vehicle's purchased be GM products they are suddenly attacking the "domestic" Chrysler that is owned by an Italian company.
It seems too convenient to discredit Chrysler now that it is owned by Fiat and now that GM and Ford are becoming more popular again in the US. Now that the Toyota fiasco has blown over and the truth has come out, it really makes me hesitant to believe that NHTSA is acting in the best interest of consumer.
