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Originally Posted by Ryephile
Any sort of specific advice they offer will hold them liable. Imagine if the owners manual said "hold WOT until redline". You'd have people crashing left and right and then suing the OEM. So any wording like that, regardless if it's good advice, will never come to light. It's the same reason why you see plastered in all car commercials "professional driver on a closed course".
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If the manual exists as a legal protector, why do they recommend against hard stops? If 'well, the manual said ... ' is a valid argument, anyone with a new car could blame the manufacturer every time they run a red light or a stop sign or rear end someone or hit a tree or whatever. And yet, thats not a thing.
Similar thing goes for hard cornering. 'Sorry your Honour, I couldn't swerve to avoid them because the owners manual said not to make any hard turns during the first 200 miles.'