Family to GM: Our Son is Dead. Please, Stop Sending Us Recall Notices

[Nickdfresh]

That is sexy. I don't remember the Mustangs looking that good in the early 70's. They are expensive collectables now. That's a show car. Bugs wouldn't dare splat on the front of it.

The 'Stangs were hot cars, except when they stuffed a V-8 in a Pinto LMFAO!! I knew a guy that had one of those and was proud :D

[Nickdfresh]

A good example of why the Japanese were stealing the auto market from Detroit.

That's not totally true. If you took away the fact that the rear gastank exploded like a Hellfire missile fired from a drone during a rear end collision, the Pinto was actually a decently, cheap and reliable car. The Vega was just a fucking nightmare on every level...

[BITEYOASS]

Fuck Generic Motors. They should have gone out of business.

Or dissolved, seeing that GM is basically a merger of about ten car companies over the past 75+ years.

[ELVIS]

If you took away the fact that the rear gastank exploded like a Hellfire missile fired from a drone during a rear end collision

That's a myth, dumbass...

[twonabomber]

People should know how to handle a car if the engine cuts out. You lose power assist but you still can control the car. The problem is the watered down drivers training we have. People aren't trained how to deal with it and they don't know what to do. We had a neighbor who's accelerator stuck. It was a Ford Explorer and it was an electrical defect. Instead of just turning off the ignition switch and maybe using the emergency brake to stop. She paniced and dodged cars and the only thing she could think of to stop was to drive into a fence.

So shut off the ignition in a panic, possibly to the off position, so the steering wheel locks when turned too far? Don't start teaching driver's ed... :D

[Coyote]

I like the Z cars. Of course, I'd have put a big block in them.

Like this guy, I presume...

[Nickdfresh]

That's a myth, dumbass...

Really, fruitypants? You have anything to back that up?

[Nickdfresh]

So shut off the ignition in a panic, possibly to the off position, so the steering wheel locks when turned too far? Don't start teaching driver's ed... :D

Not too mention the airbags that won't deploy...

[Nickdfresh]

Incidentally, on the Pinto: there's a Buffalo Bills fan that drives one to all the games he can on the Eastern Seaboard who has an absurd amount of miles on the thing and averages well over 30 mile per gallon in it. He only drives it on the football weekends. Yeah, they were actually good cars. Another few dollars to properly seal the tanks, they were as good as any of the Honda or Toyota econoboxes...

[Nickdfresh]

That's a myth, dumbass...

Okay Elvis, after reviewing Wiki, you got me and you are correct. I've always been a dumbass

[ELVIS]

Really, fruitypants? You have anything to back that up?

Just google it...

I've been reading that story on and off for years...

FORD was found not to be guilty of anything with the Pinto, BTW...

Something like 27 or 29 people died in rear end Pinto crashes by the late 70's...

But that's literally out of millions of cars...

[ELVIS]

Here's a Link to an interesting read...

The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case

Gary T. Schwartz (1991)

The case of the Ford Pinto, and its alleged tendency to explode in rear-end collisions, provided the occasion for what is universally hailed as our product liability system's finest triumph. Everyone knows that Ford engineers realized the car was defective but decided (in a smoking-gun memo unearthed by trial lawyers) that it would be cheaper to pay off death claims than to change the design. There’s just one problem: what "everyone knows" turns out to be false.

[ELVIS]

I've always been a dumbass

You found that out through Wiki ??

[Nickdfresh]

You found that out through Wiki ??

Yeah, they linked everything you did...

The Pinto was almost a great economy car...

[ELVIS]

It was no worse than any of the 2nd generation subcompacts at the time...

In fact, the Pinto was statistically safer than most of the competition at the time, especially Datsun...

It was 60 minutes, Ralph Nader and the media that created the myth and the hype...