GTP Cool Wall: 1971-1980 Ford Pinto

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1971-1980 Ford Pinto

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1971-1980 Ford Pinto nominated by @Slash
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Body Style: 2-door Coupe, 2-door Sedan Delivery, 2-door Station Wagon, 3-door Hatchback
Engine: 1.6L I4, 2.0L I4, 2.3L I4, 2.8L V6
Power Output: 54-103 HP
Transmission: 4 Speed Manual, 3 Speed Automatic
Drivetrain: Front Engine, Rear Wheel Drive
Additional Information: Designed to weigh less than 2000 lbs. and cost under $2000. Car that the girl in Cujo is trapped in. Entered in Trans Am in 1972, but only managed to finish 1 race before being withdrawn. Was combined with the Cessna 337 to make the AVE Mizar, only 2 were made and both were crashed. Rebadged as a Mercury Bobcat from 1974 to 1980.
 
The only thing that would make the hellfire look like a birthday candle.
 
It explodes if you hit it hard enough.
Seriously (un)Cool.
 
Fun fact: this car only blew up from a rear collision 4 times in recorded history.


Anyways, I put it at a high cool simply for the fact of what it can be and what it can be is a uber fast car on the stupid cheap. That makes it cool for me.
 
Is this the car that was more aerodynamic in reverse?


Oh and oh so seriously uncool.
 
Even if it wasn't as unsafe as people said, everyone is still going to think of it as 'that car that always blew up'.

Seriously Uncool.
 
It's seriously uncool, but still cooler that the GM equivalents at the time.

But not AMC!
 
Low - Solid cool. Always had a soft spot for these.
 
Cool because it explodes bahaah, and my dad had one when he lived in USA.

Although it was the wagon, so not as explosive.
 
I love it, and would vote Cool. But people here hate it and put it SU or Uncool. My final result vote:

Meh.
 
It's so terrible and so universally hated that's it's cool.
 
Oh look, it's Mustang II's barely slower little brother. Much more blander looking though.. so MEH it is.
 
It's a horrible looking car, it explodes a lot and it's universally hated, Seriously Uncool.
 
I'll give it a cool.

Doesn't look overly offensive and had pretty good engines.
 
A very undesirable car
Seriously Uncool
 
I honestely don't know what to vote on this one... If seriously uncool because dreadful or cool, because everyone hates so much that becomes cool... I need to think
 
Slash
Fun fact: this car only blew up from a rear collision 4 times in recorded history.
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Wow, only four times? Like that makes it any less dangerous?

The Ford "I have a small penis in Latin America". Seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously uncool.


Slash
Anyways, I put it at a high cool simply for the fact of what it can be and what it can be is a uber fast car on the stupid cheap. That makes it cool for me.
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Yet you didn't give the same credit to a Ford Fiesta XR2.
 
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To anyone who isn't American and/or a Ford nut, this car is only really remembered for two things: exploding and being the parts bin for the Mustang II. Even though it never did much of either of those, that is what its best remembered as, and neither of those facts are what I'd deem cool. However, it is a somewhat quirky and likable little econobox, and for the time, I'm sure it was very good at what it did. Hmm... still uncool, almost meh.
 
The Pinto is explosively Seriously Uncool.
 
I frankly can't see why the hate for this car, it's not ugly in the slightest, came in wagon form, has a slew of racing pedigree and loads of potential. Plus driving one on purpose means you don't really care what other people think of you, which barely pushes it to cool for me.

I've always liked the american oddball compacts of the time. The Pinto, Vega, Monza, Gremlin and all that stuff.
 
My Dad bought one of these brand new back in the 70's. He said it was a fun little car. And no, his didn't explode.

Cool.
 
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To be fair, Ford did double the number of cylinders in the Pinto. They just called it something different.
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Even the V6 that came with the Pinto was from Ford Germany.
 
Weren't all the engines it had European?

All the engines it had you could get in Capris back then.
 
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