This begs the question:- "How long will it be before someone is killed or badly injured by faults such as this?"
I have recently sold my 2013 car with 19K+ miles on the clock and I have to say that although it was great fun to drive and I will surely miss it, they do certianly live up to the claim in the original MMC advert that "every drive would be an adventure". Every time you went out for a ride, it was debateable how you would get home, i.e either in one piece, on the back of a pick-up truck, in an ambulance or in a wooden box. Given the cost of these machines, there is no excuse for life threatening faults such as this, as a result of design faults and/or use of poor quality or incorrect materials and lack of proper development.