Jaguar Land Rover to Recall 40,000 S.U.V.s Over Air-Bag Issue

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More than 40,000 Land Rover sport utility vehicles in the United States are being recalled because the passenger-side air bag may fail to deploy in a crash.

According to documents posted Wednesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Jaguar Land Rover will recall 40,551 LR2 and Range Rover Evoque models to fix the electronic system that determines whether someone is sitting in the passenger seat.

In the affected vehicles, that system could fail, resulting in the front-seat passenger’s air bag being totally or partly disabled.

Many air-bag systems are designed not to deploy if a child is sitting in the front passenger seat. But Jaguar Land Rover, in a letter to the agency, said a problem in its systems could cause signals to be mistakenly sent to shut down the passenger air bag, even if an adult is in the seat.

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