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Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps

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The Cost of Tooling

With the Pinto, they didn't do that. They started designing the car and at about the same time, they started making the machines that were going to make that car. So by the time they figured out that they had a really dangerous fuel tank on their hands, it was too late. $200 million worth of machines have been made, and Ford said, Whoo!

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