4. Ford Pinto
Ford has always been a top runner in the field of automobiles as they are today as well. They started the era of affordable cars so that majority of the people could have the luxury of owning one. But sometimes the best make mistakes as well. In the year 1971, Ford introduced the compact super seller, Pinto. The car sold successfully in the United States, but the company noticed a rather low sale rate in Brazil. They could not figure out as to why this was happening until they realized that Pinto, in Brazil, meant “small male genitals”. Now, who would want to buy that right? What confused people even more was that, Ford, an automobile company was selling “Pinto”.
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