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Class Action

Mar. 10, 2025

Class action targets Bronco, Escape fuel injector failures

Ford is sued for selling defective Bronco Sports and Escapes with faulty fuel injectors, risking fires, while allegedly mishandling recalls and delaying federal notification.

Class action targets Bronco, Escape fuel injector failures
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Ford Motor Company was accused of knowingly selling two defective fleets of compact SUVs, the Bronco Sport and Ford Escape, and failing to timely notify federal regulators about the vehicles' faulty fuel injectors causing "life threatening" fires while drivers were on the road.

The putative class action complaint, filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, claims that the company mishandled two previous recalls of its 2021-2023 Broncos and 2020-2022 Escapes, dism...

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