When in doubt?... C4. Allez Pescarolo! (new sig once the car hits the track) ..... The Pinto was known to have a problem (which was common to many small cars of the day) - *however*, what set the Pinto apart was the infamous Pinto memo where Ford legal determined that simply paying off the estates of all the people who died a fiery death in one would only cost them $10 million as opposed to redesigning the car or correcting the problem, which would cost fractionally more. ...