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Oftentimes the attorneys make the final call on who the lead plaintiff is, it's a strategy decision, they sign up a group of people and then pick a few who they think give the overall class the best chance to be as inclusive as possible (everyone from grandma's totally stock E93 who always serviced at BMW to cletus the nitrous huffer has had problems that were due to a poor design, in reality) so that the recovery can be multiplied by a bigger number. So I think I get what they were doing, I'm just a little surprised they bothered with that kind of extreme outlier case when so many totally stock cars failed which is probably the fallback position if they can get a court to let them try again.
There are too many zeros in the individual damages to each member of the class to let this one get away, I think, but the math is pretty hard to predict becasue you still might lose even if you get the class certified. If we were talking about $500 per claimant, and only about 5,000 potential class members, ehhhhh. But $20,000? it doesn't take many class members for that to become attractive.
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