A consortium of Ningbo Joyson Electronic (Joyson Electronics) and Asia-based private equity firm PAG have offered funding to Key Safety Systems (KSS) in acquiring the all of the global assets of Japan-based airbag-maker Takata. Takata's ...
Japanese automaker Honda Motor has agreed to pay a compensation of $605m related to the Takata airbag issue in the US. The settlement covers more than 16.5 million vehicles in the country, for installing potentially faulty airbag ...
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Ford is issuing a safety recall for vehicles that have certain non-desiccated Takata passenger-side frontal airbag inflators after Takata declared those inflators are defective. This expanded recall follows Takata's notification to the ...
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Japanese automobile major Toyota Motor said it was putting to test airbag inflators made by Autoliv and Nippon Kayaku while looking for a possible alternative to defective airbags made by Takata. Prior to fitting those parts with ...
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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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Japanese automotive giant Toyota's US arm has issued a callback of around 109,000 Prius v hybrid vehicles on grounds of software glitches. The recall covers those vehicles that were manufactured between 2012 and 2014. The software snag ...
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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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Automotive safety systems supplier Takata will initiate steps to respond to public safety issues raised by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over faulty airbag inflators. The move comes close on the heels of a probe ...
Japanese airbag maker Takata has announced its plans to meet with engineers from its automaker customers, to update them about the root cause of the airbag inflator issue that led to recall of millions of vehicles worldwide. The meeting ...
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Ford has announced to expand its recall of vehicles related to Takata driver-side airbag inflators to 502,489 vehicles. This recall includes 2005-2008 Ford Mustang vehicles built at Flat Rock Assembly Plant between 2004 and 2007 and ...
Chrysler has announced that it will be voluntarily replacing front passenger-side airbag inflators to fix issues with its deployment. Around 149,150 vehicles are affected with the issue which includes 2003 version of Ram 1500, 2500 and ...
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 ...
Hagens Berman, a national class-action law firm, has filed a second class-action suit against Japanese parts supplier Takata Corporation and automaker Honda Motor Co., stating that Takata embarked on a concealment campaign, designed to ...
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Japanese automaker Honda Motors will recall more than two million vehicles in the US under three different recalls to replace front driver's and passenger's airbag inflators. The recall is said to be specific to states and US territories ...
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