Misleading Meme Compares Ford Pinto and Tesla Fire Fatality Statistics Snopes looked at the data after the politically progressive Facebook page The Other 98% compared the safety of the vehicles.

Ford’s subcompact Pinto (and its near-twin Mercury Bobcat) turned out to be one of Ford's best-known cars—but for all the wrong reasons.

SAN DIEGO — The driver of a Ford Pinto crashed his car into a fire hydrant near Qualcomm Stadium Thursday, causing water to shoot into the air. The accident happened around 1:30 a.m. at the ...

Conversely, we know of only 27 fire fatalities in the Ford Pinto despite some 3,173,491 sales during its ten-year production run from 1970 to 1980. That means that only 0.85 people died in the ...

Fuel Arc carried out its analysis by calculating the fire fatalities per 100,000 units, which was 14.5 for the Cybertruck compared to 0.85 for the Ford Pinto. Advertisement Article continues below ...

1978 Ford Pinto Cruising Wagon Is Our Bring a Trailer Auction Pick of the Day. ... Much was made of the early Pinto's reputation for catching fire in collisions—and it did—but in retrospect, ...

Ford dealt with them as they emerged, but the fire story was too good an opportunity not to draw the media's attention. Statistics proved that the Pinto wasn’t any more prone to external ...

Now to be fair to the Pinto, I was being disingenuous in this post's headline. The Pinto wagon never suffered from the post-accident fire issues that plagued the sedan and hatchback-body cars.

A meme created by the politically progressive Facebook page The Other 98% compared the number of fire-related fatalities attributed to the 1970s Ford Pinto with those attributed to modern-day ...