Takata Corp., the Japanese airbag maker embroiled in a massive global recall linked to at least 22 deaths, said Thursday that its president has resigned now that its acquisition by U.S. mobility safety company Key Safety Systems has been completed. …
Australia on Wednesday issued a compulsory recall for all 2.7 million cars fitted with defective Takata airbags in an effort to lift the auto industry’s mixed efforts to fix the fault blamed for at least 23 deaths around the world. …
The U.S. government has advised owners of 313,000 recalled Honda and Acura vehicles to replace their Takata Corp.-made airbags immediately after testing showed there’s as high as a 50 percent chance of rupture in a crash. These vehicles, from the …
Takata Corp., whose exploding airbag modules have been tied to eight fatalities and the largest-ever U.S. automotive recall, is planning an extensive advertising campaign to urge consumers to get the defect fixed. The outreach efforts for a series of massive …
Five automakers on Thursday widened recalls of cars and trucks with Takata Corp airbags and the U.S. Congress set a hearing next week on the safety issue that has been linked to six deaths. Takata last week complied with demands …
Honda plans to replace the replace driver’s airbag inflators on 2.6 million more vehicles as it expands repairs to the entire U.S. The Japanese automaker is the only company to comply with demand from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety …
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. expanded its recalls related to defective air bags on Thursday, saying a driver in Malaysia died in an airbag-linked accident earlier this year. The Japanese automaker, which has reported the biggest number of recalls related …
The head of the nation’s biggest car dealership chain says it won’t sell used cars being recalled for exploding airbags due to conflicting advice from automakers and lack of direction from the government. The recalls are giving the auto industry …