Ford Pinto

I've been promising to get back to a FoMoCo Guilty Pleasure since the Lincoln Continental Mark V Givenchy Edition of more than a month ago, but then some stuff by Saab and Mazda distracted me from my patriotic American duties. I'd thought of "honoring" the Ford Fiesta Ghia, but it turns out a lot of Europeans actually like that car, which takes away from the guiltiness of the pleasure (though I might return to the Fiesta anyway, since it symbolizes compromise and diminished expectations to Americans). Speaking of diminished expectations, how about the heroic efforts made by Detroit to dress...