TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto
For those who don’t know about the Pinto:
In 1978, Ford recalled 1.5 million Pintos because the fuel tank was prone to rupturing in rear-end collisions at speeds of 20 mph or higher. This was the largest recall in automotive history at the time.
The cool thing is when you set records. Being the most anything is awesome.
It’s sarcasm, leave me alone.
And the Pinto is actually cool looking.
Never forget that Chrysler did the exact same thing with the Grand Cherokee that resulted in deaths and never faced accountability.
How much of that is down to the electronic door locks keeping people from escaping?
No problem. steal $400 million from the taxpayers, clear the inventory - problem solved.
My childhood car was a Pinto. I was very grateful it never blew up when I read about the issues many years later.
The majority of them had a recall to fix the lack of armor on the gas tank.
Wasn’t that just some PVC pannels zip-tied behind the tank?
it fixed the problem
Most of them had some rust issues and it was easy to replace the tank with a much better one anyways
I knew a girl in highschool who had one. Her dad had customized the shit out of it… put a V8 in the hatchback trunk … that think was a fucking rocket
All caps doesn’t make your post more interesting. Just annoying.
The title of the article is in all caps. I copied and pasted it into the post field.
