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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto (fuelarc.com)

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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...

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.