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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Remember them in their context--their competition. They weren't as bad as they look in hindsight. Many, many, many cars had the same sort of gas tank design--where the tank formed the trunk floor. The problem was the small size of the Pinto moved the tack closer to the axle. Well, that, and Ford recognized the safety issue--and proposed a solution--and discarded it because of cost....
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Well, there is a little more to it than that.....their bean counters calculated the total cost of adding a $.75 reinforcing plate over the expected run of production and decided it would be cheaper to fight the lawsuits and let people continue to die.
How many people have died in Chevy volts?
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