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…
JFC, I can’t believe they beat the pinto.
This has been an old mechanic joke since the 80s. Lol
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).
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.
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.
Wait… Explain?
EldritchFemininity: Describes being hired to build the human centipede, but out of Ford Pintos
Also EldritchFemininity: Refuses to elaborate; leaves.