It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - eviltoast

We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data…

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    i remember those. had one for a short bit. i actually liked the car… but ya know, being a teenager, you’d like pretty much any car if it was the only one you had to drive.

    the car after that was a red mustang. it was puurrdy. i hated it. it had the 4cyl pinto engine. step on the gas and it just groaned… noooooooo!!. the pinto was faster (it had a v6).

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      2 days ago

      I still own a Ranger that has that same Lima 2.3L engine. Believe it or not, I don’t think it’s that bad.