Have you ever wondered why some cars have features that make no sense at all? Whether it’s a design flaw, a marketing gimmick ...

Ford was known to be aware of the propensity of the Pinto to burn in rear-end collisions, and the myth soon arose that Ford, in developing the Pinto, found that making the fuel tank safe would ...

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.

As detailed by MotorTrend, the Pinto’s fuel tank was located directly behind the rear axle, meaning that rear-end collisions, even at low speeds, would slam the axle into the gas tank.