I owned two of them and found them to be quite reliable...however me being a young and dumb teen-twenty something, I totalled both of them before they reached 40k miles.
BTW...the first WASN'T MY FAULT! I t-boned and totalled a Mercury Marquis that pulled across my lane and stopped before getting all the way into the median. Cops said my skid marks were 128 feet before impact. Also, I wasn't wearing my seat belt...the steering wheel looked like a pretzel and I escaped with a laceration to my shin.
At least I was never rear ended!
I owned two of them (Pinto’s) and found them to be quite reliable...however me being a young and dumb teen-twenty something, I totalled both of them before they reached 40k miles.
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That seems to be the consensus, you are the second Pinto owner that has posted they were reliable cars. I withdraw the nomination.