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Originally Posted by joyridin'
Remember the Pinto's catching fire? The shield that prevented the fires was supposedly a 5 cent part. The management at Ford at the time chose to save 5 cents and pay the insurance claims.
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The Pinto that got this issue started was stooped dead on a freeway,had no gas tank cap,but a rag instead and was hit in excess of 50 mph.ANY rear tanked vehicle would have burned.
27 people dies in "Pinto fires".There were over 2 million Pintos built.This averages out to be in line with most other models.
Stop believing the media hype.
[quote=Wayne Maybury;
By today's standards, the quality of cars built in the 60's or 70's was very poor not only for the Big 3 but for all of the Japanese cars and many of the Europeans cars as well. Toyota's quality recently started to drop off as their market share got close to GM's.
Wayne[/QUOTE]
But by the mid-70's Japanese quality had overtaken Detroits.The big three had pissed off too many people.My Dad was one.He switched to Datsun and never looked back.
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Originally Posted by Speedysnake
Doesn't anyone remember the "Unsafe At Any Speed" Corvair?The trunk made a great beer cooler!
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Don't believe a word Nader says.If you knew how to drive a rear-engined car,there was nothing wrong with the Corvair.And BTW-it was the last innovative thing GM did.