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Tata Motors Ltd offers owners of the Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, the possibility of installing the security protection on the vehicles after a few of them caught fire last year.
The company will contact the 70,000 owners of cars Tata Nano, launched in 2009 to $ 2,500, in affording them the opportunity to install "a safer system and electric exhaust," he said in a statement. The company said the move was not an issue, adding that the fires were specific to the units.
"Research by a team of internal and international, has returned to the conclusion that the reasons for the incidents in some car Tata Nano is specific for cars that have this type of incident," Tata said in a statement.
"We found cases of other electrical equipment is installed strange or foreign matter left in the exhaust system," he added.
Business daily The Economic Times on Wednesday said at least seven such incidents have been reported so far.
Nano, which created a lot of buzz when it launched because it allows for an emerging middle class to own a car, you lose the sale.
In October, the strongest month for car sales in India that the annual bonus and the Christmas period to keep promising big purchases in the showrooms of consumers.
Tata Nano has sold 3,065 units in October, 5520 when the previous month. In October, sales were up 2 percent from a year earlier, after the entire Indian car market, which grew by almost 38 per cent over the same period.
