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most dangerous cars pinto corvair and suzuki samurai

Question, did the samurai become the geo tracker and therefore the chevy tracker? Cause that would have been a long lived dangerous vehicle(in context of normal road operation...because back woods don't count)

wasn't the tracker and samurai available at the same time

oh oh oh i wanna see

is it available online ?

history channel .com

I can believe the samurai was nominated, those and the trackers were rollover kings. You could look at one funny on a windy day and they would topple over. But they were cheap, and relatively reliable, and that's all some people could afford. Plus they were fun as all get out in thick woods cause you could needle through where bigger vehicles couldn't.

not real sure about corvairs but pintos and samurai where good cars there were tons of them on the road and that makes for more horror stories

holy chit the pinto blew up lol

It's all relative: The famous Pinto case was about some drunk rear ending it at about 50 mph, resulting in the instant cremation of 2 corpses.
Except it turned out the Pinto was actually a relatively safe car.
Ford Pinto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Also at this time, NBC did an expose on Chevy pickup fuel tanks exploding when it was hit in the side. Tanks at the time located outside the frame rail. Turns out they didnt have much faith it would would actually do that so they rigged a charge to make sure.

I know first hand about the Corvair.. saw that in action as the guy thought it was fun to jump them. The real problem {cause Beetles had the same axles} was GM didnt limit drop enough.

Samurai / Tracker .. two nerds from the AV Club can roll one over.

But what about just about every truck from pickup to 1 ton built before 1950 or so?

Gas tank in the cab behind the seat. Get T-Boned, good chance you're a crispy critter.

well i agree with that and i think there were alot of cars built unsafe there always has been always will be