Business regulator receives almost 50 complaints against Ford’s Kuga
In a move to start a class action against embattled motor manufacturer Ford‚ dozens of complaints from owners whose Kugas had spontaneously ignited were handed over to the National Consumer Commission on Monday. For months‚ Ford has been fighting a battle with irate Kuga owners across the country, whose cars have burnt. To date‚ 48 Kugas have caught fire. Reshall Jimmy died when his 2014 Kuga caught fire while he was holiday in December 2015 in the Wilderness‚ Western Cape. On Monday, The Times showed that Ford knew from January 2015 that there was a potentially deadly flaw in its top-selling family sport utility vehicle, yet the manufacturer only issued an alert in December 2016 to its customers. The newspaper learnt that in 2016‚ several insurance companies alerted Ford to the problem after reports from fire investigators conducting inspections for the insurance claims showed that there were potential safety issues with the car. On Monday morning‚ after initially being refused ent...
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