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The calculation basically determined that if the cost of a potential legal settlement was less the cost of a recall and subsequent modification of the exploding fuel tank, Ford wouldn't do the recall.

Even if you leave out the controversial Las Vegas incident that was deemed a suicide, that’s still more than 10 times worse than the Pinto, whose flawed gas tank design became infamous.