{"id":1690,"date":"2015-09-23T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogautosphere.creatic-agency.fr\/laffaire-ford-pinto\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:16:20","slug":"laffaire-ford-pinto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/laffaire-ford-pinto\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019affaire Ford Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"custom-post-container\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Si le Volkswagen Gate concentre l\u2019attention m\u00e9diatique, d\u2019autres scandales industriels ont ponctu\u00e9 l\u2019aventure automobile. Revenons sur l\u2019affaire Ford Pinto. Une compacte lanc\u00e9e en 1970 et dont le r\u00e9servoir avait la f\u00e2cheuse tendance \u00e0 s\u2019enflammer apr\u00e8s un choc arri\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Face \u00e0 la mont\u00e9e en puissance des constructeurs japonais et europ\u00e9ens sur le sol am\u00e9ricain avec des automobiles bien plus \u00e9conomes, Ford r\u00e9pond par la commercialisation le 11 septembre 1970 de la Pinto dont le succ\u00e8s lors des premi\u00e8res ann\u00e9es est ind\u00e9niable pour cette compacte 3 portes et 4 places. Cependant, en interne, les ing\u00e9nieurs ont tir\u00e9 la sonnette d\u2019alarme apr\u00e8s les crash-tests : Lors d\u2019un impact \u00e0 l\u2019arri\u00e8re entre 30 et 40 km\/h, le r\u00e9servoir d\u2019essence peut se d\u00e9tacher et s\u2019enflammer. \u00c0 cela s\u2019ajoute la faiblesse du ch\u00e2ssis dont la forte torsion lors du choc emp\u00eache les occupants d\u2019ouvrir les portes. Prisonniers, ils n\u2019ont plus qu\u2019\u00e0 p\u00e9rir par les flammes. Le secret demeure bien cach\u00e9 jusqu\u2019en 1977 et un article du &#8220;Mother Jones Magazine&#8221; (d\u00e9nomm\u00e9 Pinto Madness). Un article d\u00e9clenchant d\u2019autres enqu\u00eates journalistiques ainsi que celle la National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), autorit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine en mati\u00e8re de transports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgOxWPGsJNY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Le prix d\u2019une vie<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Le grand public prenant conscience du vice cach\u00e9 de la Ford Pinto, les proc\u00e9dures ne tardent pas \u00e0 suivre. Ainsi, le 10 ao\u00fbt 1978, un grand jury de l\u2019Indiana condamne Ford pour un triple homicide involontaire apr\u00e8s que trois jeunes filles eurent br\u00fbl\u00e9es vives dans une Pinto percut\u00e9e par l\u2019arri\u00e8re. Sauf que le cynisme de Ford avait tout pr\u00e9vu. Les dirigeants du constructeur am\u00e9ricain avaient calcul\u00e9 qu\u2019une campagne de rappel coutait bien plus cher que l\u2019indemnisation des familles de victimes fix\u00e9e \u00e0 200 725$ de l\u2019\u00e9poque. Officiellement, les familles de 27 victimes de la Ford Pinto ont obtenu r\u00e9paration et Ford fut condamn\u00e9e \u00e0 une amende de 125 millions de dollars avant que cette amende ne soit r\u00e9duite \u00e0&#8230; 4 millions en appel. Selon une enqu\u00eate de 1991 du Rutgers Law Review, ce serait plus d\u2019une centaine de victimes qui serait \u00e0 d\u00e9nombrer dans des impacts par l\u2019arri\u00e8re en Ford Pinto.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Barbecue 4 places&#8221; et culture populaire<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bien que le d\u00e9faut majeur fut corrig\u00e9 en 1974, la Ford Pinto resta commercialis\u00e9e durant 10 ans. Ce n\u2019est en effet qu\u2019en 1980 que ce mod\u00e8le disparait. Non pas que Ford avait enfin pris conscience de son erreur, mais tout simplement parce que le mod\u00e8le ne se vendait plus. Il faut dire qu\u2019aux quatre coins de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique, cette voiture \u00e9tait surnomm\u00e9e &#8220;<em>The Barbecue that seats 4<\/em>&#8220;, le Barbecue 4 places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Une r\u00e9putation qui a d\u2019ailleurs fait son chemin dans la culture populaire. Dans le film \u00ab<em style=\"background-color: initial;\"> Cujo<\/em> \u00bb, adapt\u00e9 d\u2019un roman de Stephen King, un des personnages meurt, prisonnier d\u2019une Ford Pinto en flammes. La Pinto que l\u2019on retrouve \u00e9galement dans la parodie des films sur la seconde Guerre mondiale \u00ab <em style=\"background-color: initial;\">Top Secret! <\/em>\u00bb. Un v\u00e9hicule charg\u00e9 de soldats allemands explose apr\u00e8s un l\u00e9ger contact avec le pare-chocs de la Ford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9GGDOUDLhc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">L&#8217;image de Ford a souffert quelques ann\u00e9es de cette affaire. Preuve est n\u00e9anmoins faite qu&#8217;un g\u00e9ant de l&#8217;automobile peut se relever des pires crises comme si de rien n&#8217;\u00e9tait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si le Volkswagen Gate concentre l\u2019attention m\u00e9diatique, d\u2019autres scandales industriels ont ponctu\u00e9 l\u2019aventure automobile. Revenons sur l\u2019affaire Ford Pinto. Une compacte lanc\u00e9e en 1970 et dont le r\u00e9servoir avait la f\u00e2cheuse tendance \u00e0 s\u2019enflammer apr\u00e8s un choc arri\u00e8re. 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