Approximately 67 million Takata airbags were recalled years ago, because they could effectively become fragmentation grenades. The resulting stream of shrapnel caused numerous injuries and deaths ...
Older Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler and Ram owners are waking up to one of the starkest warnings regulators can issue: do not drive your vehicle at all until a defective airbag is fixed. The National Highway ...
A 28th death in the U.S. has been blamed on a faulty Takata airbag inflator. While it’s grabbing headlines now, the deadly accident actually happened six years ago—another stark reminder of the ...
Chrysler parent Stellantis on Wednesday issued a “Do Not Drive” warning for about 225,000 older vehicles in the US fitted with unrepaired defective Takata air bag inflators. The warning applies to ...
Volkswagen is recalling 114,000 Beetle coupes and convertibles and Passat sedans and wagons to replace their potentially dangerous Takata driver-side airbags. Because of a defect, these airbags could ...
Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal ...
Ford issued a rare warning that owners of certain vehicles made between 2004 and 2014 should not drive until they check nhtsa.gov/recalls to see whether their car, truck, or SUV needs to have its ...
DETROIT — BMW is telling owners of some older 3-series cars to stop driving them after another recall of dangerous Takata air bag inflators. A driver in Australia was killed by an airbag malfunction, ...
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday stepped up pressure on federal regulators and Takata Corp <7312.T> to accelerate the recall of millions of airbag inflators, citing evidence ...