"dwight" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de:
> >>
>> > > Well, primarily it's a sore point with Ford owners who don't
>> > > like it being pointed out that "5.0" is an overstatement of
>> > > their engine's displacement, which is 4.942 litres. As any
>> > > third-grader knows, that number is properly rounded to 4.9, and
>> > > not to 5.0. Ford tells lies, which is no surprise ("Quality is
>> > > job 1", "Our cars don't jump out of Park all by themselves",
>> > > "Our ignition switches don't catch on fire all by themselves",
>> > > "Our alternators don't, either", "Pintos are safe", "Our
>> > > radiator fan blades don't fly apart,impaling whoever happens to
>> > > be standing in the wrong vertical plane", "Ford has a better >> > > idea", etc.)
>> >
>> > Wow. Someone has serious Ford issues.
>>
>> Yes: Ford.
>
> Pintos... Either you're an ancient fart who carries a grudge for
> decades, or you're digging through the corporate trash trying to
> make some strange point about Ford that could also be made about
> anyone else who's ever built an automobile...
>
> I think the former.
>
> dwight
I've owned two Pintos (both wagons) and I liked them. The first one was an _extremely_ underpowered 4-banger "woodie" with whitewalls, an automatic, and air (sold to Mom because she liked the way it looked but then actually complained that it didn't have enough power so she sold it), and a V6, which was pretty neat.
Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC