After being struck by a moving vehicle that was traveling at the speed of 50-55 miles per hour. It could have been a full size Impala and still would of burst into flames. The driver of the van was named Duggar who had had a very extensive driving record which includes the following speeding 65 in a 45mph zone, running a stop sign, going 45mpg in a 25mph zone, drivers license suspended, driving with a suspend!.
ed license, and license suspended again all of this with in a two year period.
There are also opinions by both sides. Iacocca argued that if Ford would not put a subcompact car out on the market that the Volkswagen and the Japanese where going to take over the market of the American subcompact car. Ford still had control over the market with its midsize cars as well as its full-sized vehicles. Ford didn't have to compete with the subcompact cars it would always have control with the other divisions of cars and trucks. Another was the driving conditions that played a big part in it claims Ford. Conditions that where caused by mother mature where to blame rather than the Ford Pinto itself with its malfunctions in the rear-end by it I mean the gas tank.
As to where James Neal had asked Mr. Olsen was a bad father for giving his eighteen-year-old daughter a 1973 Pinto. Not taking into consideration that the Pinto was a very unsafe car. Also was the issues where Ford claims that it tried to call the owners of the Pintos to recall the car to fix the problem with the gas tank but, Ford said that it could only contact the original owners and had no way of contacting the new owners of the car. And id it did that it would take to much time to run the thousands of VIN numbers through the Department of Motor Vehicles. There where many problems on both sides to this issue. The problems that arose where why didn't ford use the inexpensive plastic baffle that would of saved thousands of live. It would have been too expensive for Ford Motor Company to recall all of the Pintos out there today.
