They shoot horses, don't they? Well, this is fish in a barrel. Of course
the Pinto goes on the Worst list, but not because it was a particularly
bad car — not particularly — but because it had a rather volatile
nature. The car tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions. The
Pinto is at the end of one of autodom's most notorious paper trails, the
Ford Pinto memo , which ruthlessly calculates the cost of reinforcing
the rear end ($121 million) versus the potential payout to victims ($50
million). Conclusion? Let 'em burn.
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