Unmitigated disaster.FordFord is one of America's oldest automakers and one of the oldest in the world, popularized for being ...

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.

The Ford Pinto’s reputation is so toxic that the car has become shorthand for corporate negligence. Ford knew its design would make the car more dangerous and the company still went ahead with it.

The Ford Pinto, the thrifty subcompact reviled for its tendency to explode when rear-ended, is on the leading edge of a renaissance of 1970s-era cars. “It’s a shock to see them,” said Norm ...

Diminutive import cars were a growing market moving into the ’70s, and yet the smallest car in the North American Ford lineup was the Maverick. Enter the Pinto. Lee Iacocca’s design parameters ...

Ford engineers had conducted over forty crash tests before the car’s market release in 1971. Every single one returned the same result: a hit from behind at more than 25 mph ended with the ...

The Ford Pinto Car Club of America holds an annual 'Pinto Stampede,' a four-day drive that ends at the Carlisle Ford Nationals — the largest Ford car show of the year.

So the search for the third-best car was confined to those with engines of at least 2.0 liters, and it narrowed down to the Toyota Celica, the Mercury Capri 2000, and the Ford Pinto with either ...

The car was the polesitter for two of the races and won the 300-mile race at Charlotte. The Pinto was sold to a customer who raced it for a year or two, then the Pinto just sat. For 30 years.