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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Feb 9 12:59:51 2011, in response to Re: The (Not So Good) Old Days, posted by Fred G on Wed Feb 9 08:49:50 2011. Agreed. From a mechanical standpoint, the Pinto was a pretty good car. The fuel tank problem was a design issue; Ford wanted to rush the car into production to compete with the Vega and the AMC Gremlin so the engineers had to take shortcuts with the location of the underbody elements. The problem was not that the design was dangerous, but that Ford knew of the potential for explosions and decided it was cheaper to pay liability claims than to either redesign the car or add protective materials to the gas tank area to prevent explosions in rear-impact cases.But the car itself was mechanically sound. |
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