The Ford Pinto is one of the most infamous cars in automotive history. Introduced in 1970, just prior to the first OPEC oil embargo and the gas crisis that followed, the Pinto was initially a huge ...

Diminutive import cars were a growing market moving into the ’70s, and yet the smallest car in the North American Ford lineup was the Maverick. Enter the Pinto. Lee Iacocca’s design parameters for the ...

Since Ford had great success with one car named after a horse, the Mustang, it only seemed natural the company would try it a second time. On Sept. 11, 1970, Ford Motor Company introduced the Ford ...

Joe Parker is a nationally award-winning journalist and columnist from the Atlanta area. He has served as an automotive journalist for the past four years alongside extensive sports, business, ...

[This story originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of MotorTrend Classic] A big, nasty storm struck the American automotive market in 1959. It washed some 615,131 imported cars ashore, breaching ...

Mickey Thompson (left) has selected Dale Pulde as his driver (suited up) and Dee Keyton (right) as crew chief. The J. E. Fiberglas version of a '71 Pinto was handed over to Joe Anderson for one of his ...

As part of our automotive-engineering-failures series, Popular Mechanics is rounding up the most dismal design flaws in automotive history. Today: the Ford Pinto fuel tanks. There's a reason the Pinto ...