From: "Ken Waller"
From: "Jeffery Smith"
> At least it has been since the Ford Pinto was discontinued. ;-)
And the Pinto is hit from the rear without the gas cap on....
Didn't matter whether the cap was on or off.
The design of how the filler neck connected to the gas tank was
vulnerable in rear impact collisions.
The vulnerability was over-stated to some extent. An impact sufficient
to puncture the fuel tank in the Pinto was of questionable survivability
otherwise because of the vehicle's small size.
Over the entire production run, the Pinto's safety record was comparable
to other vehicles of all sizes sold in the U.S. and actually slightly
better than comparable imports of that time.
http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
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