Opinion ID: 782173
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: June 2, 1988: Press Conference

Text: CU held a press conference on June 2, 1988, at which it announced that the Samurai had shown a propensity to roll over in CU's tests and that it would be rated Not Acceptable in an article to appear in the July 1988 issue of Consumer Reports. During the press conference, Pittle stated that, based on CU's testing, the Samurai had an unusually high propensity to roll over while performing an accident avoidance maneuver that could be demanded suddenly of any driver during routine driving. Pittle further described the short course as benign, involving only very limited steering inputs, a characterization he later conceded was not accurate. Pittle also stated that the other tested vehicles had made it through the short course with a yawn, a statement that Suzuki contends is at odds with the fact that the Isuzu Trooper II failed the course in three out of four runs by hitting cones. 5