Actually not the car's fault. A taller brick on 32"+ tires will probably be tippier when a tire lets go. Explorer wasn't any worse than any other comparable SUV of its day.Just hopefully less flippy and murdery
Ford specced a stupid low tire pressure for a heavy SUV to gain a softer ride (25psi) Firestone had bad tires (dad had two sets slip belts on his '94 Explorer totally ignoring Ford's stupid tire pressure and running 35psi where he thought it should be) He got sick of them and switched to Goodyear right before the recall happened.
Couple those two things with yuppies unfamilar with a truck that mash the brake pedal when a tire lets go and it is barrel rolls for everybody.
SUV's were really gaining popularity when the Firestone thing went down as family vehicles so there were a lot of new truck drivers in them too.
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