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Takata to Stop Using Volatile Chemical in Airbags

Takata Corp has told U.S. safety regulators it will no longer use a volatile chemical in its airbag inflators. The Japanese supplier is at the center of a global recall of tens of millions of cars for potentially deadly airbag …

Car Industry Struggles to Solve Air Bag Explosions

A year ago, Japan’s Takata Corp, the world’s second-largest maker of auto safety parts, believed it had finally contained a crisis more than a decade in the making. It was wrong. More than a million Honda Motor Co Ltd vehicles …

Safety Regulators May Expand GM Air Bag Recall

U.S. safety regulators are checking to see if more General Motors cars should be recalled because the air bags won’t inflate. The probe covers about 400,000 Chevrolet Cruze and Sonic small cars, the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car and the Buick …

Chrysler Recalls 1,661 Dodge SUVs for Airbag Issue

Chrysler Group LLC is recalling 1,661 2013-model Dodge Durango sport utility vehicles in the United States and Canada because certain some airbags may not deploy in an accident. The recall affects 1,449 of the seven-passenger versions of the SUVs in …