Introduced in 1971, Ford launched the Pinto as the company’s answer to the rise of compact imports from Japan and Europe. Critics have alleged that they rushed, limiting time for safety testing.

The Ford Pinto hit the streets in the early 1970s, with the manufacturer looking to tempt American drivers by offering a budget-friendly, fuel-efficient subcompact at the dawn of the fuel crisis. It ...

In the 1970s, Ford felt that it had another Model T moment on its hands with its “for the people” Pinto. The company launched this first subcompact for the American market as an answer to the growing ...

Due to the location of its fuel tank, when involved in a collision, the Pinto was more susceptible to explosions than a typical car. As detailed by MotorTrend, the Pinto’s fuel tank was located ...

The Ford Pinto is one of the most infamous cars in automotive history. Introduced in 1970, just prior to the first OPEC oil embargo and the gas crisis that followed, the Pinto was initially a huge ...

The Ford Pinto, infamous in the 1970s for bursting into flames if its gas tank was ruptured in a collision. The lawsuits brought by injured people uncovered how the company rushed the Pinto through ...

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The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice Ford Pinto describes it as "not a concours car, but an extremely nice 50-year-old driver quality vehicle." Let's see what that might just translate to in ...

In the sixties, one General Motors car was Satan’s personal archangel of doom and motoring apocalypse. At least, that’s what an infamous book claimed while thrashing the Chevrolet Corvair into a lousy ...