I read Blakes comments just before I went to bed last night, and thought it a bit late to post anything meaningful, as it's a pretty serious subject. I'm glad I held off, as there have been some good and well argued points on both sides, and very little I can now say which hasn't been said.
What I would say however, though, is how sorry I feel that the MMC do not acknowledge the products' problems a little more openly, maybe this is down to the sueing culture, or they just don't see they have a problem. For example, I suspect that if the M3W front wishbone collapse hadn't happened to journalists, it would not even have been acknowledged as a problem, not publicly anyway.
I hate it when a business is so succesful that they no longer take notice of their customers justified comments about genuine problems, and I feel that is where the MMC is now, especially with the M3W?