Hyundai Motor India showcased its vision for the future of urban mobility with the world showcase of the HND-14,’Carlino’ at the 2016 Auto Expo in New Delhi, India. Hyundai Motor India, the country's second largest ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US has sought details from automaker Volkswagen and Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata about the explosion of a side airbag in a 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan. Volkswagen was not ...
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Hondo Motor has attributed the death of a woman reported in September last year in Los Angeles to the violent deployment of Takata-made airbag, raising the toll to eight. The safety regulators in the US told Reuters that the death of one ...
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Automobile manufacturers will make a new recall history in the US, repairing defective airbags across 34 million cars after regulators pulled up Japanese supplier Takata on safety issues. With the historic recall expected to span over ...
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Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
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General Motors’ Chevrolet division has unveiled 2016 Volt electric car featuring sleek sporty design and all-electric range of 50 miles. The car will be powered by 18.4 kWh lithium battery which was jointly developed by General ...
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Honda Motor has been fined $70m in penalties by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for not reporting deaths, injuries, and certain warranty claims. The penalty is divided into two parts, a maximum civil penalty ...
General Motors (GM) is recalling around 83,572 sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks due to issues with the ignition switch. The issue was uncovered during an internal review by the company. The recalle would involve Chevrolet ...
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After failing to get proper explanation from Takata, Honda Motor started conducting its own tests to find out reasons for airbag explosion with used and scrapped cars in Japan. The company was forced to take the step because Takata was ...
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Chrysler has announced that it is adding 208,783 to it ongoing recall list to replace passenger-side air-bag inflators supplied by Takata. The latest recall will include older model vehicles that were bought or registered across five ...
Honda is planning to expand the Takata airbag related recall to three million vehicles in the US. Previously the company recalled around 2.8 million vehicles mostly in humid areas of the US, where humidity could make the inflators more ...
Auto supplier Takata has told US lawmakers that it is yet to identify the cause behind the explosion of its air bags, but refused to extend the recalls to all the 50 states of the US. The Japanese company suspects high humidity to be the ...
Honda has called other automakers to join in an industry wide third-party testing of Takata airbag inflators to fix the issue as soon as possible. The company is encouraging automakers to engage in independent engineering analysis to test ...
Japanese automotive manufacturers Honda Motor and Mazda Motor may have to recall more cars in the US over airbag issues. Reuters reported that both the companies may have to recall 200,000 more cars in Japan to replace Takata air bags if ...
Toyota Motor has announced recall of around 57,000 vehicles worldwide, to replace the potentially failed Takata's air bag inflators. Since 2008, over 16 million vehicles have been recalled by several car manufacturers due to problems ...
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