Tata Motors says second Nano catches fire

India’s largest vehicle maker, Tata Motors, said one of its ultra-cheap Nano cars caught fire as it was driven to a dealer, the second such incident this year. A Tata Motors spokesman said the company was investigating the problem. Last month, a Nano was engulfed in flames in the western city of Mumbai minutes after it had been delivered to the customer, media reports said. Tata Motors started deliveries of the Nano, a show-stopper at the New Delhi auto show in 2008 where it was first unveiled, in July last year and there are more than 30,000 Nanos on the road today. Last year, a few Nanos caught fire and the company said it had identified the problem as faulty ignition switches and was changing the vendor who had supplied the parts. Tata has plans to sell gasoline-engine Nanos in Europe by next year and in the United States in the next three years. (April 8, 2010)