Ford is one of the few solid carmakers in this world, and it also holds the honor of having been the first to mass-produce a widely affordable automobile. Knowing this, you’d be inclined to believe ...

Today, the Ford Pinto is widely mocked as one of Ford's biggest missteps and, by extension, a symbol of what went wrong in parts of the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s. What gets lost in that ...