1976 Pinto Cars Recalled
 

the car's ashtray might pop up when passing over a bump
:1orglaugh

I dont think anyone cares about a 34 year old car that was embarrassing to own even when it was new.

Hey! that was a legend and a must-have-that-car in the late hippie years!

ford pinto memo key points:


1. With expected unit sales of 11 million Pintos, and a total cost per unit to modify the fuel tank of $11, a recall would have cost Ford $121 million.

2. But, using mathematical formulations of a probable 2,100 accidents that might result in 180 burn deaths, 180 seriously burned victims, and 2,100 burned-out vehicles, the "unit cost" per accident, assuming an out-of-court settlement, came to a probable $200,000 per death, $67,000 per serious injury, and $700 per burned-out vehicle, leaving a grand total of $49.53 million.

3. Allowing the accidents to occur represented a net savings of nearly $70 million.

4. Therefore, a human life was mathematically proven to be worth less than an $11 part.

http://www.autosafety.org/uploads/ph...F_FordMemo.pdf

I used to have an orange one when I was 16...biggest pile of crap, ever!