Aston Martin, James Bond's conveyance of choice, has recalled more than 5,000 vehicles because of problems with fake plastics from China.
In a letter last month to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, Aston Martin said it had received reports that throttle pedal arms broke during installation, and discovered that "initial tests on the failed pedal arm have shown that the Tier Three Supplier used counterfeit material."
Here's more from Bloomberg Businessweek, which first reported the story:
"The luxury sports cars' throttle pedals are assembled in Swindon, England, by a company known as Precision Varionic International, which in turn gets its parts from Fast Forward Tooling in Hong Kong. In this case, Fast Forward Tooling subcontracted the molding of pedal arms to Shenzhen Kexiang Mould Tool Co., which bought its allegedly 'counterfeit material' from Synthetic Plastic Raw Material Co. in the Chinese factory town of Dongguan."