Cheapest car fire risk fears
Indian car maker Tata Motors is planning to carry out safety checks on the world's cheapest car after three separate incidents of fire-causing, steering column glitches were reported.
New Nanos as well as the 7,500 units that have already been sold across India could undergo precautionary checks, but there are no plans to recall vehicles, a company spokesman said.
Problems in the combination switch - which controls the car's headlights, windscreen wipers and indicators - reportedly caused the fires.
One instance each was reported from the cities of New Delhi, Lucknow and Ahmedabad. The fires were said to have started in parked cars and there were no injuries suffered as a result.
The spokesman said: "We do not believe this is generic and we are not considering any recall.
However, a pre-emptive check may be carried out on cars that are to be handed over or those that are with customers, purely as a precautionary measure."
Tata, which owns Jaguar and Land Rover in the UK, launched the 1,300 pounds "people's car" in March this year, targeting middle-class families who normally commute by motorcycle.
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