Funny thing about the whole Pinto gas tank story.
I was reading one of the Houston newspapers several years after that happened, and there on page 28D or whatever was this little 2” long story that said that after the NTHSA studied the problem.
They found that the Toyotas, Mazdas, and Datsuns of the day were actually MORE prone to a fire as a result of a rear end collision than the Pinto.
But we have to hatchet the American businesses, in order to not tarnish the Japanese quality myth.
It’s not a hatchet and it’s not a myth. The American companies have a long history of making crappy cars and refusing to fix them. Heck GMs CEO even admitted it in their pre-bailout troubles, if you think there’s a myth there take it up with him.