ABC News turned over its findings to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal agency charged with enforcing vehicle performance standards. While the agency has not found evidence of a safety defect, they issued a statement directing drivers to their website to “report potential safety issues to the agency, including strange and unexplainable incidents involving their vehicles.”

In South Korea, however, the government is taking ac-tion. Korean safety officials launched an investigation after a series of car firesinvolving BMWs -- some parked, some not – attracted sustained media attention.

Koh Sungwoo, a South Korean transport ministry official, told ABC News that BMW initially suggested that one of the causes...

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