Ford Pinto

2015 denoted the date Marty McFly went to when he flew out to the future in the scandalous DeLorean in Back to the Future Part II: 21 October 2015. Here at CANSTAR, we celebrated in style by figuring the amount it would cost to safeguard the DeLorean. (We're insane gathering people here.) Expense to guarantee the DeLorean We have made the accompanying essential presumptions in setting up this quote: Goes 10,000 to 15,000 km/year (barring time travel) Auto typically lives in a carport…

profits over people, this study is focused on the Ford Motor Company and their vehicle the Pinto. In 1968, Lee Iacocca president of Ford Motor Company was under the gun to develop a sub-compact car to compete with foreign car manufacturer Volkswagen (Dowie, 1977). To get the vehicle ready to sell quickly, he ordered that production chop their timetable down. “The normal time span from conception to production of a new car model is about 43 months. The Pinto schedule was set at just under…

In the essay “Pinto Madness,” by Mark Dowie an author of many books, reveals the corporate greed of the Ford Motor Company. The essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits,” by Milton Friedman, who in 1976 received the Nobel Prize in Economics, claims that “The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned "merely" with profit but also with promoting desirable "social" ends,” (Friedman 157). In the…

grand Jury indicted the Ford Motor Company on charges of reckless homicide and criminal negligence that played a part to the death of three teenage girls on August 1978 in Elkhart, Indiana. They were killed in a fiery crash when their Ford Pinto was struck from the rear by a van driver on U.S Highway 33 near Goshen Indiana. Their automobile exploded and burst into flames. The Elkhart County grand Jury argued that Ford Company had previous knowledge that the fuel tank of pinto in which Judy…

of the author’s Gioia Dennis in the case of the “pinto vehicle Fire” is very edifying lesson from the author point of view when he was in charge as Ford’s Field Recall Coordinator. As explained in the text: “I was in charge of the operational coordination of all of the recall campaigns currently underway and also in charge of tracking incoming information to identify developing problems. As the author clarify one of the reluctant visions of Ford at that time, “There were other reasons for not…

In Pinto Madness, Mark Dowie, an award- winning journalist/author, argues that in the 1970’s corporate greed influenced the way automobile manufacturing mishandled safety regulations in order to increase profit instead of protecting human lives (148). He supports his claim by first explaining the significance of the Ford Pinto to the situation. The Ford Pinto was entirely “designed in about two years”, the car was “rushed into production” with the schedule for production “set at just under 25”…

against American made cars. Ford motor company wanted to produce a subcompact car to meet the threat from abroad head on so Ford came up with the Ford Pinto. These cars were made to be affordable and domestic, in order for a large quantity of Americans to be able to afford them. To accelerate product production Ford “decided to compress the normal drafting board to showroom time of about three and a half years into two” (Shaw, p. 85). After numerous crash-tests of Pinto prototypes, many cars…

Pinto Fires and Personal Ethics Ford is a well-known auto maker and neglected safety for styling due to the corporations belief that “safety doesn’t sell”. Due to the lucrative and competitive challenges from Volkswagen, European cars, and Japanese manufacturers, Ford rushed the Pintos, a small compact car, styling and price. As stated by the author, “The Pinto was brought from inception to production in the record time of approximately 25 months (compared to the industry average of 43 months)…

Once a year Hot Rod magazine hosts a Top Speed Challenge in Ohio in which they have loads of street legal cars competing to go the fastest in the standing mile. The Death Proof Camaro, Geezer II Firebird, and the DIYAutoTune 240sx are Three of the most dangerous cars competing in the Top Speed Challenge. Each one of these cars are capable of going over 200 miles an hour during a pass. At the event there is 20 different classes based on engine size, brand, and configuration. The Death proof…

Now that Stark vs. Ford Motor Co. has been resolved it is important to review both the ethical and business implications resulting from the decision. In particular, was Indiana’s law just in the judgement of this case or should it be different? I believe Indiana law was reasonable in distributing remedies for contributory negligence because there was material evidence unlike in Whitted vs. General Motor Corporation. In this case, a man whom was in a car crash was injured because his seatbelt…