Ep 122 - 5 Biggest QMS Disasters Part 4 - Love it or Hate it, the Ford Pinto was Popular and Made an Impact

In our last episode of the Top 5 Quality Management System Failures
of all time according to Domenic Tramontana, we discuss the Ford
Pinto.  Most people are familiar with the disaster that was
the Pinto.  I had heard jokes about it but didn’t really know
what was funny.  I was shocked when I learned more about the
Ford Pinto. The fact is, Ford knew about their gas tank
problem.  Not only did they know, they held a patent to a
safer tank that OTHER car manufacturers were using in the same size
cars at the same time.  Furthermore, Ford ran the
numbers.  At their calculations, it would be less costly to
Ford to make the car as it was designed and pay out damages than to
redesign the whole car.  Ford really did wrong on this
one.  Trying to get the car produced before new laws were in
place caused them to hurry the production leaving no time for
redesign or retooling.  Thus, the disaster of the Ford Pinto
was created.
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