You're an original, I'll give you that. You're the only person I've ever heard say they preferred slabs of Fisher-Price-like hard plastic over leather and soft-touch plastics.
The MT82 is a turd, but NHTSA's investigation into a possible recall came up dry, and the class action suit never got off the ground. Truth be told, the MT82 isn't that much worse than the SN95 and early S197 TR3650. That said, I hate the MT82. It shifts like you're jamming a long knife through a box of metal parts, if I was buying another 'stang right now, it'd be a 13 or newer with the 6R80.