Ford agrees to $299M Takata airbag settlement

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Kia recalls 507,000 vehicles in U.S. for airbag issues

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Hyundai Motor shares slide following U.S. probe of airbag failures

SEOUL — Shares in Hyundai Motor tumbled on Monday on a U.S. probe into why airbags failed to deploy in some of its Sonata sedans, with investors fretting about potential recall costs for the once popular cars. The probe, which follows crashes that reportedly killed four people and left six injured, will review the 2011 […]

U.S. rejects Ford bid to delay airbag recall of 3 million vehicles

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday it was rejecting a petition by Ford to delay recall of about 3 million vehicles with potentially defective Takata airbag inflators. The agency said it did not find the request by the second largest U.S. automaker to defer a recall until additional testing […]

Massive Takata Airbag Recall: Everything You Need to Know, Including Full List of Affected Vehicles

– The automotive world and beyond is buzzing about the massive airbag recall covering many millions of vehicles in the U.S. from nearly two dozen brands. Here’s what you need to know about the problem; which vehicles may have the defective, shrapnel-shooting inflator parts from Japanese supplier Takata; and what to do if your vehicle […]

Honda will pay $605 million in a settlement over Takata air-bag flaws

Thomson Reuters (Reuters) – Honda will announce a $ 605 million economic loss settlement on Friday covering 11.4 million owners of U.S. vehicles with potentially faulty Takata air bag inflators, sources briefed on the matter said. The Japanese automaker joins other major automakers that have reached similar settlements, and agreed to take additional actions to […]

Honda engineer debunks own claim about cause of Takata airbag failures

DETROIT, June 23 (Reuters) – Honda on Friday released a 2013 email in which one of its engineers suggested that he knew some hidden truth about “the root cause” of Takata Corp airbag failures, but the engineer later said he was mistaken. The engineer’s email was disclosed in a statement from Honda as part of […]

Takata would stop making airbag inflators under new plan

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Takata Corp, facing bankruptcy over the biggest recall in automotive history, would stop making airbag inflators after completing a global recall, under a restructuring plan under consideration by its steering committee, sources told Reuters on Friday. The committee is discussing plans with rival Key Safety Systems Inc (KSS) which is negotiating […]

FCA Recalls More Than a Million Ram Pickups for Software Glitch That Turns off Airbag

– Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling 1,021,279 Ram pickups in the U.S. due to a software glitch that turns off some of the occupant-restraint systems in rollover crashes. FCA said it knows of one fatality, two injuries, and two accidents that could be related to the issue. – Affected trucks include certain 2013–16 Ram 1500 […]