Ford Motor Company: Pinto Fires

Running head : FORD MOTOR COMPANY : PINTO FIRES

Ford Motor Company : Pinto Fires Abstract

Automobile crashes are always in the centre of public attention . It is a well-known fact that automobile is the most dangerous kind of transport Surely , this statistics depends on driver 's feel , road and car conditions , weather , speed , drivers ' rules completion and a plenty of other factors , but , nevertheless this sad statistics confirms again and again . Especially it can be said about cheap , budget ' autos because of poor safety conditions provided in such automobiles . This writing is

about one of such budget ' cars - Ford Pinto by Ford Motor Company which is famous for its crash fires . This car has been a reason of a lot of deaths because of its specific construction , but , nevertheless it was one of the most popular cheap automobiles on the time of its production .Ford Motor Company : Pinto Fires

A model Pinto ' produced by Ford Corporation in 1971 was an example of cheap , subcompact , popular but dangerous and law-quality auto . Li Iaccoca (1984 ) in his An Autobiography ' has mentioned that Pinto in 1971 was the best car to buy up to two thousands of US dollars and Ford sold about 400 thousands of Pintos during the first year . The amount of sold cars of Ford Pinto is about of 3 million vehicles . This model is famous for its fires in crashes which resulted from two well-known for Ford Management problems

First problem is a petrol tank which was disposed next to...