We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data…

  • @[email protected]
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    822 days ago

    JFC, I can’t believe they beat the pinto.

    This has been an old mechanic joke since the 80s. Lol

    • @[email protected]
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      202 days ago

      i remember those. had one for a short bit. i actually liked the car… but ya know, being a teenager, you’d like pretty much any car if it was the only one you had to drive.

      the car after that was a red mustang. it was puurrdy. i hated it. it had the 4cyl pinto engine. step on the gas and it just groaned… noooooooo!!. the pinto was faster (it had a v6).

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        2 days ago

        I still own a Ranger that has that same Lima 2.3L engine. Believe it or not, I don’t think it’s that bad.

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      72 days ago

      My dad had a friend who once had a job basically slapping the rear end from one Pinto onto the front end of another, and he said that one time a safety inspector remarked that he was making them safer than they were rolling out of the factory.

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          81 day ago

          EldritchFemininity: Describes being hired to build the human centipede, but out of Ford Pintos

          Also EldritchFemininity: Refuses to elaborate; leaves.