The fire was the ending — the real story started years earlier in a boardroom.

Then, on May 28, 1972, Lilly Gray was driving her six-month-old Pinto down a stretch of California’s Interstate 15 when the engine stumbled and stalled. A 1962 Ford Galaxie braked hard and rear-ended ...

In the 1984 parody film "Top Secret!" — follow up to the comedy classic "Airplane!" from David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams — there is a large, gag-filled action set piece as the group of ...

What was the best-selling Detroit subcompact car of the 1970s? The Ford Pinto and its Mercury Bobcat sibling, of course, and I’ve found a good example of Dearborn’s little horse at a car graveyard in ...

Kurt Young, are you out there? And do you still have that Ford Pinto insignia from your favorite car ever? A recent conversation focused on a Pinto (not the finest car Ford has manufactured by the way ...