After many victims suffered & others died, it was revealed that Ford knew the Pinto's gas tank was in the worst possible place - right behind the rear bumper, but they didn't want to spend a few dollars to move it.
Ford did the same thing with their classic Mustang; it has a drop-in gas tank in the trunk. Same tragic results in rear-end collisions; passengers sprayed with flaming fuel. "On Mustangs built from 1964 through 1970, the gas tank was simply dropped into a hole in the trunk. If the tank is ruptured in a rear-end collision, there is no solid barrier--just a flimsy seat back--between the passengers and the gasoline. "It's not a safe way to put fuel into an automobile,"
Yeah - "Classic." Classic skin grafts for 3rd degree burns............