 Offered with an inline-4 engine and bucket seats the Pinto's mechanical design was conventional, with unibody construction, a longitudinally mounted engine in front driving the rear wheels through either a manual or automatic transmission and live axle rear end.Suspension was by unequal-length control arms with front coil springs; the live rear axle was suspended on leaf springs.The rack and pinion steering optionally had power assist, as did the brakes.