Federal investigations about safety of rear-mounted gas tanks is nothing new
Sun, 09 Jun 2013
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Chrysler are currently making waves in our daily news feeds due to a disagreement over the safety of a few million Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee models. Specifically, NHTSA has asked Chrysler to recall the SUVs because of the location of their fuel tanks, but you may be interested to know that requests such as this are nothing new.
Besides the two Jeep models, NHTSA has launched investigations over the years in such models as the Ford Crown Victoria (and its police-car counterpart), GM pickups built between 1972 and 1987, and rather famously the Ford Pinto.
Understanding how automakers and NHTSA have dealt with fuel-tank-safety concerns in the past may offer a better understanding of how Chrysler and the government agency will settle their current dispute. Check out the complete article from The Detroit News here.
By Jeremy Korzeniewski
See also: Chrysler recalling 630k Jeep models worldwide, Chrysler taking big risk snubbing NHTSA, Chrysler defies NHTSA, says it won't recall 2.7M Jeep Grand Cherokee, Liberty models.