Maker Insists Feds Overstate Risk Of Fires With Grand Cherokee, Liberty Models. It's not often that recall stories make it above the fold, in that old newspaper parlance, but when one shows up as the lead story on the network evening news programs, you know it's something big. And so it is with Chrysler snubbing its nose at a request by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall 2.7 million Jeeps the feds insist are at risk of potentially catastrophic fuel tank fires in a rear-end collision.
For its part, the automaker insists that "the vehicles are safe and not defective," adding that "incidents...
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