Mark Dowie, Pinto Madness. Mother Jones, 1 September 1977. “For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.”
April 11, 1959
The Safe Car You Can’t Buy
Ralph Nader, The Safe Car You Can’t Buy. The Nation, 11 April 1959. “The Article that Launched the Consumer-Rights Movement…. It is clear that Detroit today [1959] is designing automobiles for style, cost, performance and calculated obsolescence, but not for safety.”