/ Source: Reuters
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. is recalling about 440,000 of its Civic and Insight small cars after discovering they are prone to sudden low-beam headlight failures, federal safety regulators said on Tuesday.
"An unexpected loss of low beams could result in a crash," the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a posting on its Web site.
It said 2001-2002 model year Civics and 2000-2002 Insights were subject to the recall, which was prompted by overheating in the headlight switch.
The Insight was the first gas-electric hybrid car sold by Honda in North America.
Honda, Japan's second-largest automaker, told NHTSA in a letter late last month that no accidents or injuries had been linked to the headlight malfunction.
