Police are investigating a suspicious car fire in Flaxmere believed to have been caused by a Molotov cocktail.
Police and fire attended the incident on Flaxmere Ave at 3.36am.
Hastings Volunteer Fire Brigade senior station officer Nicky Bates said the fire is being treated as suspicious.
"Someone has thrown a Molotov cocktail at the back of the vehicle and it has hit the tyre."
The tyre and outside of the vehicle were scorched but "luckily" the inside of the car did not catch, she said.