1971 Ford Pinto

1971 Ford Pinto in De bende van Hiernaast, Movie, 1980

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin:

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Author	Message
kudos ◊ 2011-11-15 21:34	Ford Pinto
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-11-16 01:30	1971/72.
carobserver ◊ 2011-11-16 01:50	ohh, the first Pinto I have seen in Europe...
Ingo ◊ 2011-11-16 10:30	There were a plenty of articles about the Pinto in Europan magazines, when it was released in 1970, so about "The first non oversized US-made car" and so (I even have one car-magazine from the DDR with a brief report about the Pinto). But in reality the selling amount of it was small. Probably Belgium and Switzerland had been the biggest marekts over here. In West Germany the Pinto was one of the few US-cars, which had official price-listings (for example in the "autokatalog"), maybe even sales brochures have existed. I cannot remember, that I've ever seen one running here.
cko ◊ 2011-11-16 17:17	These cars were famous for rusting quickly and Europe tends to be a bad climate for that.
929V6 ◊ 2011-11-16 21:20	An article in the Dutch car magazine Autokampioen of 1971 stated that due to its poor suspension, it drove like a truck... Few were sold in Europe.
Ingo ◊ 2011-11-17 22:24	cko wrote These cars were famous for rusting quickly and Europe tends to be a bad climate for that. The European cars back then weren't any better.
rjluna2 ◊ 2013-05-26 02:33	Might be the 1973 model year due to extended front bumper