Enterprise Rent-A-Car sold Chevy Impalas without standard side air bag

[Texsox]

http://www.kansascity.com/842/story/1385463.html

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the nation’s largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, chose to “delete” a standard safety feature from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles, saving millions of dollars.

 

After the company rented out those 2006-08 model vehicles, Enterprise and countless dealers nationwide offered them for sale on the open market — minus the side-curtain air bags that have been shown to dramatically reduce highway deaths.

 

What’s more, a Kansas City Star investigation found that hundreds of Impalas already sold were incorrectly advertised on Enterprise’s Web site as having the very head-protecting feature that the rental company opted to exclude on General Motors’ factory floor.

 

More at link. Basically when I rent a car, I expect it to have all the standard safety equipment. I am very surprised to learn that manufacturers allow fleet buyers to delete certain non federally required safety equipment.

[Steve9347]

I think this is going to raise some big issues.

[Balta1701]

I think this is going to raise some big issues.

I doubt it. Wouldn't we have heard of this before if someone had been genuinely harmed by the move already?