Do you REALY want a pinto?

Seriously, the deadliest car, a timebomb.

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• happyfeet19942008

[thinkpad411]

@happyfeet19942008 Is that the story? I always heard that they commenced a risk analysis for the cost of reducing fatality's from gas tank punctures and concurred that it was cheaper to pay up to the lawsuits than put a 15 dollar piece of plastic as a buffer zone because it would eventually cost them more than to pay off people.

[johnw429]

@happyfeet19942008 They did not explode. In a severe rear end collision (such as a notable example where the car was stopped and hit at 50mph), the gas tank could get punctured and then the leaking gas could cause the car to burst into flames. It wasn't any more dangerous than any other small car at the time. There was also a plate put on new cars staring in the mid 70s and also on existing ones in a recall that would prevent the gas tank from getting punctured.

[IRApride21]

@DanDaMan4A69 huh, could've fooled me, haven't heard many other people than brits say "Wanker"

[DanDaMan4A69]

@IRApride21

hey bro i support the ira but hahah i aint from the uk brother



[IRApride21]

@DanDaMan4A69 they're wankers because of Fords fuck-up? See this is why no one likes the UK

[TheLethalPriest]

nice spelling

[Clarancecat]

@DanDaMan4A69 Most of the fires occurred on highways and surface streets, not when someone ran their Pinto into a wall.

[Clarancecat]

@DanDaMan4A69 Because it wasn't the Pinto drivers' faults that their gas tanks would explode, covering the car's interior in burning fuel. It was a faulty, unsafe design that caused so many deaths. Additionally, the gas tanks only exploded, and not in the typical movie-type sense, when the car was hit from behind with some force, which meant someone else's bad driving caused the problem.

[DanDaMan4A69]

u guys are wankers. cars dont explode unless there is a bomb in this case it was releasing fuel which ignited causing flames not explosions, if u wanks knew how to drive there wouldnt be any deaths, and if u were that worried about being rear ended then y u dont wear seatbelts and othe safety devices that were around in the 70s I still think it was a shit desighn but hey if you crash into a wall doing 100 y would you think it was the cars fault you died

dumbass

[iamcooldk]

@happyfeet19942008 i owned one and well yets say my wifes in a wheel chair 

[rampking1]

@91dodgespiritrt The issue was the filler pipe separated from the fuel tank upon a hard collision, instead of from the body of the car resulting, the fuel draining out and igniting.

You have to recall the time, the gas crisis was ongoing in 1973 and many were puting locking gas caps on their cars which aggravated the situation.

Never figured out how the hard plastic shield between the rear axle and tank helped anything.

Btw, a mallory unilite, MSD and heavy duty front springs were the ticket.

[sphinxrising58]

@thinkpad411 Rgardless of the fiiiiix, public image had been shttered so they could have made the Pinto a perfect car and no one would have bought it so they took the tech of a Pinto and placed in it other cars people drove.