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Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (119 Cal.App.3d 757, 174 Cal.Rptr. 348) was a personal injury tort case decided in Orange County, California in February 1978 and affirmed by a California appellate court in May 1981. The lawsuit involved the safety of the design of the Ford Pinto automobile, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.
First-generation American subcompacts, left to right: AMC Gremlin, Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega. American automakers had first countered imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle with compact cars including the Ford Falcon, Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Corvair and Plymouth Valiant, although these cars featured six-cylinder engines and comprised a larger vehicle class.
The Ford Pinto engine was the unofficial name for a four-cylinder internal combustion engine built by Ford Europe. In Ford sales literature, it was referred to as the EAO or OHC engine and because it was designed to the metric system, it was sometimes called the "metric engine". The internal Ford codename for the unit was the T88-series engine.
Will we look back at boards of directors, company divisions, corporate lobbying, and egregious executive compensation with the same awe and wonder as when we hear of LaserDiscs, Ford Pintos ...
This resulted in Ford recalling 1.5 million Pintos and Bobcats, the largest automotive recall to date. [77] [78] Two notable legal cases, Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company and State of Indiana v. Ford Motor Company, are the result of accident related fuel system fires.
Other times, it’s not a product but negligence on the part of a company that can be deadly. Most recently, the San Francisco-based utility company PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of ...
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The infamous "Pinto memo", a document submitted to the NHTSA examining the societal costs of new roll-over legislation, was presented to the public as proof that Ford executives knew about a design defect and decided to do nothing after calculating that paying off lawsuits was cheaper than reengineering the car. This presentation resulted in ...