¶ … Ford Pinto
WAS FORD TO BLAME IN THE PINTO CASE?
The Ford Company and Lee Iaccoca are fully responsible for every single death that has occurred due to the Pinto's design flaw. There is ample evidence and testimony that the design flaw was known of long before the car was released. Ford's management decided to produce the car despite the obvious safety issue. A car was released that the manufacturers knew would cause unnecessary deaths, deaths that could be avoided by installing a part for less than ten dollars. With this knowledge in mind, Lee Iacocca committed an act that is tantamount to murder. He ordered the production to continue undisturbed.
The Ford company went on to block safety legislature for the next eight years that would have forced a recall on all the unsafe Pintos. Instead, the assembly lines churned out millions of rolling firebombs to take the lives of innocent people for...
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