U.S. Agency Wants Automakers to Speed Up Takata Airbag Recalls July 17, 2018 By TOM KRISHER The U.S. government’s road safety agency is urging automakers to speed up replacement of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. The...
Lawsuits Accuse Automakers of Faulty Airbags, Recall Delays March 16, 2018 By TOM KRISHER General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Volkswagen and Mercedes all knew of problems with dangerous exploding Takata airbag inflators years before issuing...
Takata Settles Suit With Injured Drivers to Exit Bankruptcy February 13, 2018 Takata Corp’s U.S. unit has reached a settlement with representatives of those injured by lethally defective airbags, paving the way...
Report Blames Faulty Airbag for Florida Driver’s Death January 19, 2018 By TERRY SPENCER A Florida woman died because a faulty airbag ruptured and fired shrapnel into her head during a crash she should...
Unrepaired Takata Airbags Remain in Two-Thirds of U.S. Vehicles November 20, 2017 By Ryan Beene Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. vehicles containing defective airbag inflators made by Takata Corp. remain unrepaired as automakers have made...
Bankrupt Takata Airbags Still Around June 29, 2017 By TOM KRISHER, DEE-ANN DURBIN and MARI YAMAGUCHI Takata’s lethally defective airbags proved to be the company’s undoing Monday. But it could take years to get the dangerous...
Several Automakers Settle Takata Airbag Suit May 22, 2017 By DEE-ANN DURBIN Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW have reached a proposed settlement that would compensate owners of 15.8 million vehicles for money...
Recalled Takata Airbags Being Installed in Used Cars April 21, 2017 A Nevada crash that nearly killed a young woman has exposed a hole in the government’s efforts to get dangerous...
Takata Airbag Recall of 42M Cars Needs to Move More Quickly December 12, 2016 By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN The U.S. government is trying to get automakers to move faster to fix 42 million vehicles that are being recalled...
Honda Audit Reveals Takata Engineers Manipulated Airbag Test Data July 21, 2016 By Craig Trudell and Margaret Cronin Fisk Takata Corp., the airbag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of airbag inflator tests reported to...