The last time this did the rounds (before the post got flagged into oblivion)[1] I did my own analysis [2]. When normalized by vehicle-years it was actually closer to 40x worse than the Pinto, not just 17x as stated in the article.
why include the las vegas one where he intentionally detonated it?
Still nearly 14x the Pinto instead of 17x. Four fire fatalities for 34,438 vehicles is pretty concerning.