Toyota Recalling Over 1 Million Vehicles Over Potential Air Bag Issue December 21, 2023 By David Shepardson Toyota Motor said on Wednesday it will recall 1.12 million vehicles worldwide because a short circuit in a sensor could...
Automakers Oppose NHTSA Bid to Force Recall of 52 Million Air Bag Inflators December 20, 2023 By David Shepardson Major automakers including General Motors, Toyota Motor and Volkswagen and two air bag makers said on Tuesday they oppose the...
NHTSA Demands Recall of 67 Million Air Bag Inflators May 15, 2023 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) demanded the recall of 67 million air bag inflators because it believes there...
U.S. Tells Auto Makers They Don’t Have to Recall 56 Million Takata Air Bag Inflators May 7, 2020 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday it will not require automakers to recall 56 million additional Takata...
Takata Engineers ‘Manipulated’ Results of Air-Bag Inflator Tests: Honda Audit July 19, 2016 By Craig Trudell and Margaret Cronin Fisk Takata Corp., the air-bag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of air-bag inflator tests reported to...
U.S. Must Hold Takata Accountable for Air Bag Recall: Senators November 11, 2015 Two influential U.S. senators, worried about Takata Corp.’s ability to complete its recall of potentially deadly air bag inflators, sought...
Number of Cars with Takata Air Bags Uncertain June 11, 2015 By Paul Lienert The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata air bags appears to be less than half the...
8 Million Cars Recalled for Air Bags; Only 6% Repaired: Bloomberg November 20, 2014 By Craig Trudell and Ma Jie Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and other major automakers have fixed only a fraction of the almost 8 million...
Air Bag Recalls Renew Doubts About Carmakers’ Responses to Defects October 21, 2014 By Craig Trudell, Ma Jie and Yuki Hagiwara A deepening crisis involving deadly air bags is shaking confidence in the ability of automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and...