I insist they are safe at any speed so long as you keep their gas tanks empty!

It seems the pinto narrative was framed in way to make it look worse but compared to other cars of similar type it wasn’t all that bad[1]. This exaggerated narrative despite vindicating data is perpetuated in biz ethics.

[1] https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/10/17/misunderstood-ca...

Yup. The lesson to be learned once you dig into it is "if you're doing some industry standard thing that someone could ever potentially portray as seedy definitely don't document it".