The fire was the ending — the real story started years earlier in a boardroom.
Today, the Ford Pinto is widely mocked as one of Ford’s biggest missteps and, by extension, a symbol of what went wrong in parts of the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s. What gets lost in that ...
“They factored it into their budget." A viral video has brought back one of the more notorious chapters in automotive history—the Ford Pinto scandal. It has raised fresh questions about how carmakers ...