• Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall

    • 25 June 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    BBC reports that Japanese car giants Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have expanded a recall of cars to replace airbags made by Takata The recalls had initially been issued in North America, but have now been extended to the rest of the world The carmakers said they were calling back a total of 32 million cars [...]
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  • US lawmakers have warned of car ‘recall fatigue’

    • 24 June 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Policy makers in the US have warned of car 'recall fatigue' in a congressional hearing with regulators and carmakers about progress in a major airbag recall Faulty airbags made by Japan's Takata have been linked to at least eight deaths, multiple injuries and has prompted the largest recall in US history The US [...]
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  • Eight deaths now linked to faulty Takata airbags

    • 22 June 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda's US division said on Friday (19 June) it has linked the September 2014 death of a woman in Los Angeles, California, to the rupture of a Takata airbag inflator, bringing the number of fatalities related to defective Takata airbags to eight, Reuters reports US highway safety regulators also confirmed that the [...]
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