Lew Goldfarb, assistant general counsel at Chrysler rejected the entire concept that any Chrysler vehicles qualify as lemons – cars cursed with so many defects as to be virtually unfixable. The problem, he said, is with California lawyers who 'drag us into court trying to make it an issue 10 times greater than it really is.'
Rosemary Shahan, head of the CARS Foundation consumer group that has been backing the DMV, dismissed Goldfarb's assertions. She noted that Chrysler President Robert Lutz was quoted in the company's in-house magazine last July as saying that 'just 10% of Chrysler vehicles are up to Toyota's standards, another 80% are merely OK, and that another 10% cause repeated problems for our customers.'
– Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1995
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