@newsguyusa little factoid here for you.
Approximately 3 million to 3.3 million Ford Pintos were sold during its ten-year production run from 1971 to 1980.

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Based on industry data and reports through early 2026, Tesla has sold roughly 60,000 to 70,000 Cybertrucks in its lifetime

@newsguyusa *laughs in Elder Millennial*

@newsguyusa With that being from Feb 2025, can you imagine how high it is today?

Also, I loved my Pinto. lol.

Paul Chambers🚧 (@paul@oldfriends.live)

Attached: 1 image @SecularJeffrey@ohai.social My first car was a 1976 Pinto wagon. Loved that car. I bought it off my cousin for $500 when I was 14 and started driving it when I was 15 1/2. It was the Ford green color scheme. It looked like this one:

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@newsguyusa Even without knowing this, I'd be 17 times as likely to buy a Pinto than a Cyber truck.

@newsguyusa And he gets to keep selling them because we're living in peak neo-liberal death cult now.

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As an aficionado of safety statistics, deaths per 100,000 units is unusual. Also, it's not clear what time period applies to that 27 Pinto deaths. Is that over the 20 years they were in use?

(cc @boblord )

@newsguyusa what a coincidence, it is also 17x uglier! amazing achievement

@newsguyusa The death threats at the bottom of the article…kinda expected from the Cybertruck fanbois.

@newsguyusa At least the Pinto was fun to drive!

@newsguyusa Well, this #wankpanzer is hot.

@newsguyusa This truck is a death trap. That said, they are counting in their statistics the Las Vegas event, where the truck did *not* catch fire. The driver deliberately exploded it.

@newsguyusa I drove a Ford Pinto, the “immolation special,” for years including several times across the country. That was before I knew about the dangers. I’m not worried about Teslas because we know about them now. I’m worried about the “don’t know” and “don’t know that I don’t know.”

@newsguyusa The good thing is nobody will miss the single incel men that get blown up in Cybercucks

@newsguyusa proof of Musks incalculable genius. He improved on a proven statistic by 17x! Genius! He can't stop winning!

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Considering who is buying them I consider this Darwinism in action.

@wendythedruid @newsguyusa
RE
3 million #fordpinto vs 70k #Cybertruck and number of accidents

The other factor is the driving skills of the Pinto vs the 🤪truck

@newsguyusa that fuelarc article just celebrated its 1st birthday. Fuelarc is heavily biased against EVs in general. I don't own a Tesla or any kind of EV at all but I would take any opinion from that Fuelarc with a few kilograms of salt.

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How many did the US military purchase? Oh wait maybe they're just a new weapon system. The exploding whip.

#fuckmusk #Dildoge

@newsguyusa I'm seeing a remake of _The Spirit of '76_ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0100670/

@adamshostack @newsguyusa @boblord Musk can go f*** himself alright but this data is flawed. It even included the guy in Vegas who blew himself up.