The Center for Auto Safety often is not national news, but requiring recall Jeep Grand Cherokee models 2.2 million National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tends to change things. Organization focused on security claims that from 1993 to 2004 Grand Cherokee "is the most dangerous vehicle on the road today" through design alleged faulty fuel tank.
The tank in question behind the rear axle, which would make the tank is more apt to punch in the event of a rear crash. And when the tanks of gas breakdown, they tend to ignite. In fact, the Center for Auto Safety contends that 55 people died in accidents with severe fires.
This is not a very good statistics for Chrysler, but the automaker told ABC News that accidents arriere-impact that lead to a fire are rare and not different from other models in the same class as the Grand Cherokee. Chrysler ended by moving the gas tank of the Grand Cherokee at the front of the rear axle rear, but the automaker claims that the move was done to make more room for cargo and not by any concern for safety.
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