Regulators Raid Toyota Offices Over Safety Scandal, Sending Stock Down June 4, 2024 By Nicholas Takahashi Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers embroiled in a fresh certification scandal halted shipments of a handful of models and...
19th U.S. Death Tied to Takata Air Bag Reported in South Carolina April 22, 2021 By David Shepardson Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it had confirmed the 19th U.S. death tied to a ruptured Takata air bag...
Honda to Re-Recall 1 Million Cars in U.S. to Replace Faulty Air Bag Parts March 12, 2019 By Ryan Beene Honda Motor Co. will recall more than a million vehicles in the U.S. to replace a batch of faulty air...
Takata Airbag Led to Death in Louisiana Honda Civic Crash December 20, 2017 Honda Motor Co.’s North American unit and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed on that a ruptured airbag inflator...
Kobe Steel Can Expect Spate of Lawsuits for Its 10 Years of False Data October 12, 2017 By Christie Smythe and Margaret Cronin Fisk Kobe Steel Ltd.’s legal problems are just beginning in wake of the company’s disclosure that it falsified data for years...
Toyota Makes Strategic Investment in Grab, SE Asia’s Leading Ride-Sharing Firm August 30, 2017 By Kevin Buckland Toyota Motor Corp. is pushing deeper into the ride-sharing business. The Japanese carmaker is making a strategic investment in Grab,...
BMW, Intel & Parts Maker Delphi to Develop Self-Driving Platform May 17, 2017 By Paul Lienert German automaker BMW AG, U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. and parts maker Delphi Automotive PLC on Tuesday said they would collaborate...
SoftBank & Honda Aim to Develop Talking Cars that Read a Driver’s Emotions July 21, 2016 On the heels of its $32 billion takeover of chip designer ARM Holdings, SoftBank Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is embarking...
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...
Death Toll Rises from Japanese Earthquakes; Supply Chain Disruptions Examined April 18, 2016 By Aya Takada and Monami Yui The death toll from earthquakes that struck southern Japan rose to 42 and the economic impact began to reverberate Monday...