The movie's storyline is based on the Ford Pinto legal case - the lawsuit of Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (119 Cal. App. 3d 757). Website Wikipedia states that this litigation was "a California case about the safety of the Ford Pinto car, manufactured by [the] Ford Motor Company with knowledge of design flaws that might lead to serious injury". Wikipedia defines a class action as "...a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group. The class action originated in the United States and is still predominantly a U.S. phenomenon, but several European countries with civil law, have made changes in recent years to allow consumer organizations to bring claims on behalf of consumers".

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