Nissan May Replace Hundreds Of Leaf Cars Due To Defective Construction

Nissan says it might have to replace as many as 211 recently-manufactured Leaf battery cars because of missing welds.

The recall is because a key front structural component might not have been completely welded into place on cars made between Feb. 28 and March 12. That would weaken the front and make it less able to protect the car's occupants in a crash, Nissan told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The automaker says it expects only a few of the cars to require replacement.

222max - 5/20/2014 4:40:27 PM

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Uh, It says they expect to replace only a few. Not hundreds.

skytop - 5/20/2014 10:41:47 PM

+1 Boost

But Nissan spent over TWO Billion dollars developing the Leaf.
The leaf is CEO Carlos Ghosn's baby. What an embarrassment!

How can such design INEPTITUDE and sloppy engineering get into production?

Dexter1 - 5/20/2014 10:55:07 PM

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They should replace all of them because they are so fu*king ugly.