No, the Ford Pinto was not named for a type of bean, but a type of horse. As the fatally flawed pet project of the head of the company, the Pinto became known as what by Ford insiders?

An unsafe and poorly made car, the Pinto quickly became known as "Lee's car," as in Lee Iacocca. Iacocca demanded that the Pinto weigh no more than 2,000 pounds and sell for $2,000. The problem was....Iacocca had worked on a really new car only once before.

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