Volvo V70 Test Drive Ruined By Car Bursting Into Flames

Buying a car is almost ever a miserable process; car salesmen are known to beryllium predatory, slimy, and not really connected your side. As a result, very fewer group successful this system are excited astir spending several 1000 of their hard-earned dollars upfront — aliases going done pinch nan replacement of getting a perchance lengthy aliases high-interest car loan. Yesterday, though, a mother successful Rossville, Georgia, had an exceptionally bad car-buying acquisition erstwhile nan Volvo V70 she and her girl were test-driving, burst into flames. 

Marie Woods and her girl Leonna Tutt were shopping for a car erstwhile they visited M&R Motors, a 'buy present and salary here' lot, wherever she recovered a bully achromatic Volvo V70 that she said she was beautiful judge she wanted to get. Woods decided to return it retired for a trial thrust pinch her daughter, but little than half a mile distant from nan dealership, nan car started smoking. She told Local 3 News, "It was occurrence coming retired of nan dashboard and fume coming retired of nan dashboard."

Woods saw nan fume coming retired of nan dashboard and was capable to propulsion nan V70 complete into an quiet parking lot, wherever nan occurrence quickly escalated. Woods' daughter, Leonna, was sitting successful nan rider spot during nan ordeal, wherever nan flames first started to appear. She said, "I could spot it from nan window, and I knew instantly that I needed to beryllium trying to get out," but Woods said she could not unfastened nan locked rider door.

Someone who spotted nan occurrence adjacent attempted to put it retired pinch a mini occurrence extinguisher, but nan occurrence had already dispersed excessively acold to prevention nan car. Fortunately, some mother and girl were capable to flight nan burning car without injuries, but erstwhile nan car salesman heard of nan fire, Woods said, "he refused to apologize, he really told maine to get retired of his look and extremity talking to him." The car dealership that was trading nan Volvo said successful a connection to Local 3 News, "Our thoughts and prayers are pinch nan customer that knowledgeable this.... We are presently reviewing what happened and moving intimately pinch our security institution to reside everything appropriately."