Has GM Pulled a Pinto?

Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times asking, "Has GM pulled a Pinto?" For years General Motors produced the Cobalt, a low-cost car with a design flaw that the company acknowledges was responsible for more than a dozen deaths. Professor Turley draws parallels to Ford's production of the Pinto in the 1970s, a model infamous for exploding in rear-end collisions even at low speeds. Both companies identified problems with their vehicles, but rejected fixes because of a "tooling cost deemed too high."