Ford Pinto
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 had optional power assist, as did the brakes.
Mercury Milan
The four-cylinder engine was equipped with a five-speed manual transmission as standard (the first manual-transmission Mercury sedan since the 2000 Mystique), with a five-speed automatic as an option. Through its entire production, the V6 was offered solely with a 6-speed automatic transmission (shared with the Fusion and Montego). For 2010, the four-cylinder engines were updated with 6-speed manual and 6-speed automatic transmissions; the 6-speed automatic on V6 engines was equipped for manually-controlled shifting ("Select Shift"). 
As with the Mercury Montego and Mercury Grand Marquis, the Milan shares its roofline with its Ford counterpart. To differentiate itself from the Ford Fusion, the Milan was fitted with Mercury-specific fascias, featuring a large waterfall-style grille, matte-silver grille trim, model-specific headlamp clusters (with projector headlamps), fog lamps, LED taillamps extending into the trunklid, and a bumper-mounted license plate. Depending on trim, the Mercury Milan was fitted with imitation matte silver trim or imitation wood trim (similar to the Montego).