NANO ON FIRE

The revolutionary Tata Nano’s fire problems simply don’t seem to end. Despite Tata Motors’ best efforts to ensure that the Nano’s rear seats have been suitably insulated from the heat of the engine, that sits just behind the Nano’s rear seats, we have two cases of Tata Nano’s bursting up in flames in a single month.

The first case is from Anand, Gujarat where the fire apparently started with the occupants of the Nano, five in number, observing smoke emanating from the rear of the car. The occupants left the car immediately and parked the car along the road side, even as the smoke became a full fledged fire to engulf the car completely.

Now, another Tata Nano has reportedly caught fire in Sri Lanka, leading to the car being completely gutted by the ensuing inferno. The Tata Nano involved in this fiery mishap was a cab that was being used by a Taxi company in Sri Lanka called the Budget Taxi.

                               Also to be noted is the fact that Tata Motors had completed its internal  investigation on the Tata Nano’s fire incidents and had declared the Nano to be free from any engineering defects that could potentially have caused the fires. This investigation concluded before the Tata Nano’s exports to Sri Lanka began and hence, Tata Motors will have some explaining to do. Though the reasons for the  latest Nano going up in flames in Sri Lanka remains to be investigated, the repeat of these events at alarming regularity reflects very poorly on the Nano’s safety.