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

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (6 children)

JFC, I can't believe they beat the pinto.

This has been an old mechanic joke since the 80s. Lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My dad had a friend who once had a job basically slapping the rear end from one Pinto onto the front end of another, and he said that one time a safety inspector remarked that he was making them safer than they were rolling out of the factory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait... Explain?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

EldritchFemininity: Describes being hired to build the human centipede, but out of Ford Pintos

Also EldritchFemininity: Refuses to elaborate; leaves.

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