In article , Silver-Tongued Heel
wrote:

The reason the woman was burned, if I recall correctly, is
because the coffee's temperature was too hot (obviously) and
because the ****ty car she was in had no cup holder. In the
end, if McDonald's can be sued for the coffee being too hot
then the car manufacturer should also have been sued for not
providing a place for the old bag to put her drink.

Was the car manufacture doing something outside the accepted
norms and regulations of their industry? Had they been warned
about this before? Were they actively ignoring those warnings?

If so then I would say you are correct and they, too, could be
held liable.

the car had nothing to do with it.

Yes, because the woman was burned between the legs as a result of
there not being a cup holder in the car. She couldn't hold it for some
reason and had no cup holder to place it into so she left the coffee
cup between her legs. Doing so caused unimaginable damage and those
burns were the reason she ended up suing the company.

nope, that's not why.

she was burned because mcdonald's knowingly sold coffee that was
dangerously hot and which they never tested for safety, by their own
admission, and which had burned over 700 other customers in the
previous ten years, some caused by their own employees.