The top U.S. auto safety regulator defended the government’s request asking Chrysler Group LLC to recall 2.7 million vehicles for fire risks, but stopped short of telling owners to quit driving the vehicles under investigation.“We felt very strongly that the process that we undertook and the findings that we made and ... we made the decision to issue a recall request. We do not take that very lightly,” said National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland in his first public comments on the Jeep recall request after a Consumer Reports forum here.
“On the other hand, we are always open to hear the arguments from the manufacturer,” said Strickland. “At the end of the day, this is about seeking the truth — making sure that if there is a defect that imposes an reasonable risk, if a manufacturer has more data than we have not been made aware of, we are always happy to take it.”
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