This is a gorgeous ride.
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What color is that?
Frozen Barcelona Blue
Custom order?
Nopeā¦ first edition M850is came in that colorā¦ 400 of them made
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Mes018 - what was your deal? Curious. Iām looking at possibly getting a red one too. I want a moonroof though. Think thatās only avail on Limited/Platinum?
If you watch the documentary about that case is was an extremely valid lawsuit. I donāt know why everyone brings that example up as a frivolous lawsuit without knowing the facts of the case.
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I was going to say, people just go for the headlines without bothering to dive in deeper. Coffee wasnāt just too hot, it was boiling hot and not fit for consumption.
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The article says why:
āAccording to Conover, lawyers spent years running a disinformation campaign, which much of the media bought intoā.
Iāll admit Iām in that group not knowing the full facts. We also donāt know all the facts about OPs deal.
But just as McD didnāt change there practices until they were sued, perhaps the dealerships need to be accountable for what they do as well
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Yes, but we now have the internet to dispel corporate propaganda.
Leasehacking 101!
The people that do this are disgusting.
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If you want to know disgusting, look up copyright trolls. However, not sure why weāre comparing any of this to Op. He didnāt screw a mom-and-pop shop, he took advantage of the dealerās greed and shady business practices. Knowing this was done to a FCA dealer only makes it sweeter.
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I studied that case in a jurisprudence class in college. When you look at the facts, that lawsuit was legit. The type of injuries that person sustained was gruesome - yes, even for a hot cup of coffee.
If anyone is interested, it is a very interesting case. Little know fact, McDonalds was making coffee WAY hotter than their competitors. You can thank this lady for not getting permanently disfigured if you spill McDonaldās coffee on yourself.
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Serving coffee at 180 degrees is the textbook definition of negligence. She only wanted $20k for medical bills, they offered her $800. She was not looking for a get rich scheme. Thereās a good documentary called āhot coffeeā. Highly recommend it if your a Doc nerd like meā¦
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say what you want about that lawsuit but it was textbook rewarding stupid peopleā¦ regardless if coffee is 140 degrees or 190 degrees itās going to cause damage to the skin when its that hotā¦ Also the boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius aka 212 degrees Fahrenheit but the National coffee association says 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit is the ideal temperature for coffee.
Now did she stick a thermometer in the coffee to test how hot it was? highly doubt that, at the end of the day she didnāt ask for a cupholder, didnāt use common sense to wait for it to cool down, McDonalds had the temperature of the coffee 5 degrees lower than optimal temperature and she still cried foul when she burned herself.
National coffee association? I wonder who formed that bs lobby? Passing a hot beverage through a window into someoneās car at 180-190 degrees is negligent. And the jury agreed. Thatās how our judicial system works. Donāt be a corporate boot licker, I assure you they donāt care about youā¦
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The whole thing was that her coffee severely burned her, and McDonalds passed it off. Their insurance would have covered it, and the coffee machine was set to hotter than normal. That was the whole point about the lawsuit.
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yeah McDonalds definitely formed them in 1911ā¦ they went back in time with a time machine for the sole purpose of running a smear campaign against a 70 year old woman, donāt make yourself look stupid by defending stupidity at its finest.
McDonalds greedy? yeah Iām not gonna deny that, large corporations are there to make money. They could have resolved it by paying off the medical bills but one of their lawyers decided it would be fun to waste more time and money I guess. It could have been handled better by McDonaldās but it was frivolous to begin with.
They say 195-205 is the ideal temperature for the brewing/extraction of coffee, not the serving of coffee.