NHTSA is quietly looking at a power-steering problem on the 2006-2007 Crown Victoria police cruisers after receiving a complaint posted on its web site in May from a police department outside Arizona. Ford originally contended that the failures were confined to Arizona. The issue has some seeming similarities with a steering defect in the early 1990s. The deaths of four police were blamed on that defect but Ford insists that the two situations are completely different animals.