TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto
And the Pinto is actually cool looking.
For those who don’t know about the Pinto:
In 1978, Ford recalled 1.5 million Pintos because the fuel tank was prone to rupturing in rear-end collisions at speeds of 20 mph or higher. This was the largest recall in automotive history at the time.
How much of that is down to the electronic door locks keeping people from escaping?
The cool thing is when you set records. Being the most anything is awesome.
It’s sarcasm, leave me alone.
My childhood car was a Pinto. I was very grateful it never blew up when I read about the issues many years later.
The majority of them had a recall to fix the lack of armor on the gas tank.
Wasn’t that just some PVC pannels zip-tied behind the tank?
it fixed the problem
Most of them had some rust issues and it was easy to replace the tank with a much better one anyways
I knew a girl in highschool who had one. Her dad had customized the shit out of it… put a V8 in the hatchback trunk … that think was a fucking rocket
