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    Takata saga: Ford to pay R3.9-billion settlement due to faulty air-bag inflators

    Ford agreed to a so-called "economic loss settlement" of $299.1 million covering at least 6-million US vehicles with potentially faulty Takata air bag inflators, court documents filed in a federal court, reports Reuters. The settlement covers economic damages linked to the inflators...
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    Subaru SA to recall over 2,000 cars fitted with defective airbags

    Further to the recall of 2004 - 2007 Subaru Impreza and WRX models announced in 2016 for defective or potentially defective Takata airbag modules, Subaru SA has had to announce another recall that affects a few more Subaru models produced and sold between 2004 and 2014 in South Africa. This...
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    Toyota SA recalls over 700,000 cars across 10 models

    Japanese carmaker Toyota’s South African unit recalled more than 700,000 vehicles because of an issue with safety bags used in the cars, an official at Toyota South Africa said. “Toyota South Africa has initiated an immediate recall in excess of 700,000 vehicles across 10 models, including...
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    China: VW recalls 4.86 million cars with Takata airbags

    Volkswagen Group China, Volkswagen (China) Import Co. Ltd. (VGIC), FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Co. Ltd. (FAW-VW) and SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co. Ltd. (SAIC VW) have jointly issued a recall for more than 4.86 million vehicles manufactured from 2006 or later due to a faulty airbag inflator made...
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    Japanese airbag maker Takata files for bankruptcy, gets U.S. sponsor

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-takata-bankruptcy-japan-idUSKBN19G0ZG
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    Mitsubishi recalls Pajeros over Takata airbags

    http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/mitsubishi-recalls-pajeros-over-takata-airbags-8026914
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    Honda recalls 41,580 cars over faulty Takata airbag inflators

    https://www.team-bhp.com/news/honda-recalls-41580-cars-over-faulty-takata-airbag-inflators
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    Why Toyota Is Recalling 5.8 Million Cars Worldwide

    http://fortune.com/2016/10/26/toyota-recall-takata-airbag-cars/
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    Takata Just Got Slapped With The Largest Civil Penalty In NHTSA History, Up To $200 M

    Thanks to its practice of making exploding airbags that had a habit of filling vehicle occupants with shrapnel, Takata was forced to recall 34 million airbags in the largest product recall ever. And now it just received the largest civil penalty in NHTSA history to match it, with a fine of up to...
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    Public hearing on Takata recall

    The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is to hold a public hearing on Takata's huge airbag inflator recall, which could prompt regulators to take a stronger hand in efforts to eliminate the deadly defect from nearly 20 million vehicles. The auto safety watchdog said on...
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    Feds: Fiat Chrysler Misled Safety Regulators, Failed At Recalls

    A public whipping is indeed what Fiat Chrysler is getting at a public hearing in Washington D.C. today, where officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration accused the automaker of violating safety laws and misleading them about recalls. The Detroit News’ David Shepardson...
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    Honda expands Takata recall by 1.39 million vehicles

    Honda Motor Co. said Monday it will expand by 1.39 million cars a nationwide recall of vehicles with potentially defective passenger Takata air bags. The Japanese automaker said the reason was because Takata has declared all of the passenger vehicles defective — even though Honda had told the...
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    Takata Can't Even Do A Recall Correctly

    While Takata has agreed to the largest consumer product recall ever of 34 million cars with their defective and potentially explosive airbags, millions of cars with Takata airbags have already had theirs replaced under previous recalls. Except hundreds of thousands of those airbags will now...
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    Takata To Recall 34 Million U.S. Cars In Largest Product Recall Ever

    Takata, the beleaguered Japanese auto parts supplier currently under fire for deaths and injuries related to explosive airbags, has agreed to a recall of 33.8 million U.S. cars with those airbags, for what is believed to be the largest single consumer product recall in American history...
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    Toyota, Nissan add 6.5 million cars to Takata airbag recall

    Takata’s airbags have been at the center of a massive recall push for the last several months. Basically, airbag inflators supplied by the Japanese company might shoot shrapnel when the airbags deploy, which could potentially injure or kill people in the car. Toyota and Nissan are...
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    NHTSA Re-Recalling 2.12 Million Cars, Half Of Which Are In Other Recall

    The feds are recalling another 2.12 million vehicles in the never-ending airbag disaster after it was discovered that the fix originally offered wasn't good enough and airbags were blowing up in the absence of a crash. About half are in a different Takata recall and thus could send shrapnel...
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    Honda hit with $70 million fine for not reporting accident information

    The Obama administration said Thursday it is fining Honda $70 million — the largest civil penalty levied against an automaker — for not reporting to regulators some 1,729 complaints that its vehicles caused deaths and injuries, and for not reporting warranty claims. The Japanese automaker...
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    10 carmakers meet on air bag testing

    Ten rival automakers that have recalled millions of vehicles for defective air bag inflators met for more than three hours in Romulus on Thursday. Increasingly frustrated with a lack of answers from air bag supplier Takata Corp. the automakers are banding together to find their own solutions...
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    Honda to expand investigative air bag recall globally

    Honda Motor said it will expand an 'investigative' recall to replace potentially lethal Takata Corp air bag inflators across the globe, taking the total Takata-related recall tally of all brands to more than 19 million since 2008. Honda earlier added about 2.6 million cars in the United...
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    Takata Rejects U.S. Demand for Nationwide Air-Bag Recall

    Takata Corp. (7312) rejected a U.S. regulator’s demand to expand regional air-bag recalls to the entire country, sticking to its piecemeal approach in dealing with a potentially deadly flaw in millions of cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing Takata’s response...
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