Will the Corvair Kill You?

[BeatersRus]

Corvair's issues
Cheap fucks/bean counters at GM were the real problem
rushed the car out before enough testing & fixing it
all in trying to stave off "the Japanese invasion" of compact/economy cars
for people too cheap to pay for $0.25 cent gas, back then
then GM denying they even had a problem, because of lawsuits
if they admitted the error they were gonna' pay way earlier

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ford did the same thing w the Pinto,i think the fix was gonna cost them 24 cents a car?
so they skipped that part but that turned out to be a total f-up.
at least the corvairs didnt Explode and burn everyone to death...
and heres the real tragedy....Nader killed the corvair in i think less than a year reputationwise..
it never recovered.....
yet Ford,ran with this Known defect from the start of pintos all the way from 1971 thru 1976 before doing a damm thing about it and didnt even issue a Recall notice till 78 and then they killed off the pinto in 1980.

Ford Pinto Fuel-Fed Fires. On June 9, 1978, Ford Motor Company agreed to recall 1.5 million Ford. Pinto and 30,000 Mercury Bobcat sedan and hatchback models for fuel tank. design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to fire in the event. of a moderate-speed rear end collision.

Over 3 million Pintos were produced over its 10-year production run, outproducing the combined totals of its domestic rivals, the Chevy Vega and the AMC Gremlin. The Pinto and Mercury Bobcat were produced at Edison Assembly 1n Edison, New Jersey, St.

 

[chargervert]

Fords lawyers advised them that it was cheaper to pay the law suits than to recall the cars,they went with their lawyers advise. They did the same thing with the Explorer rollovers, they blamed Firestone for the rollover accidents, but it was Fords design that was the problem. Firestone took the hit,because Ford had better lawyers!:Any other vehicle that gets a blowout, pulls to the side of the road and changes their flat tire, but Ford Explorer's barrel roll when they get a blowout, ejecting their occupants! I saw an accident with an Explorer that barrel rolled, five occupants were ejected and died,one was an infant, and it didn't have Firestone tires! That's why I will never buy any Ford product ,they put the dollar before their customers!

 

[Budnicks]

it wasn't just the tires "like Ford claimed"
a few years of those POS's
Ford Explorers (Ford Exploders) early or mid 90's models IIRC
were extremely "tippy at best"
way "too top heavy", high center of gravity
inherent design flaw for damn sure,
they'd bicycle a lot (get up on the 2 outside wheels)
extremely prone to tip (or even roll overs) in hard cornering
regardless of brand of tires, even on modified wider tires/wheels
especially in an off camber turn

Firestone sure took it in the -arse- for that BS