A lot of pinto drivers really felt burned when they got rear ended

My cousin had a Toyota like that. He never had a problem with it. Let his wife drive it one time, and she wrecked it.

I drove my Pinto until it actually fell apart , super broke in my college days .

My sis bought a new Pinto back in the mid 70s. She had it about a year and it caught fire. Good thing she had to have insurance on that.

There was a defect in the hatchback model that if you got rear-ended it would catch fire . I heard about it after driving mine from Long Island to Toronto and back .

There was a big court case about that over by my cousin. Some kids got rear ended by a van.

I'm very familiar with that. I was telling Cuz about it, which is one reason. He made this meme.

I remember it because I was at my in-laws when we heard the sirens going apeshit. Three teen girls had gotten rear ended across the tracks and were incinerated by the gas that exploded into the cab of the car. Ford was charged with homicide in the crash, but they had enough cloyt to move the case from Elkhart to another country.

Even with the memo of how fixing the problem would cost Bout $125,000,000 versus litigation costs and settlements costing about $58,000,000 Ford decided a few deaths was worth the profits. They literally got away with murder.