19 million cars in U.S. still have defective Takata air bags: NHTSA
U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday there are still about 19 million faulty Takata Corp. air bag inflators in U.S. cars and they need to be fixed. The latest numbers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show 19.2 million vehicles in the country are ...
Fiat Chrysler buy-back of unrepaired trucks may cost billions but it has resale option
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could pay billions of dollars to buy back defective trucks as part of a settlement with U.S. safety regulators, but has the option to recover costs by reselling vehicles once they are repaired. The auto safety watchdog on Sunday slapped the Italian-American ...
NHTSA fines Fiat Chrysler record $105 mlllion over safety recall lapses
The U.S. auto safety watchdog, toughening its stance against manufacturer defects, announced on Sunday a record $105 million in fines against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV over lapses in safety recalls involving millions of vehicles. The Italian-U.S. automaker's consent agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Takata Corp., which for months resisted U.S. regulators' demands to widen a recall over its potentially lethal air bags, has had an "attitude shift" and is in a mood to compromise to try to resolve the ballooning auto safety crisis, said a source close ...
Takata output of replacement air bag inflators set to soar; shares dive
Takata Corp. said on Wednesday it plans to boost production of parts needed to replace potentially deadly air bag inflators that could spray vehicle occupants with metal shards. On Tuesday, the Japanese supplier doubled its recall of the defective air bags to nearly 34 million ...
U.S. regulators announced Tuesday that embattled auto parts supplier Takata Corp. has acknowledged defective air bags in 33.8 million vehicles in what an official described as "the most complex" recall in the country's history. The course of events hit Takata shares hard during trading on ...
Takata air bag defects prompt expanded Nissan recall in U.S.
Nissan Motor Co. is expanding a recall of the 2006 Sentra compact car by 45,000 units mainly in the Southern United States because of a defective air bag manufactured by the embattled Takata Corp., the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday. Nissan's U.S. arm ...
Automakers select aerospace company for Takata air bag probe
A group of 10 automakers affected by faulty air bags made by embattled Japanese parts supplier Takata Corp. said Thursday it has selected the aerospace company Orbital ATK Inc. to lead an independent investigation into the defect. The automakers also announced that David Kelly, former ...
Takata to save faulty air bag inflators for litigation, U.S. probe
A U.S. safety regulator on Wednesday ordered Takata Corp. to preserve all air bag inflators removed through a recall process as evidence for a federal investigation and private litigation cases. It was the first time the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency of the ...
A recent wave of auto recalls may lead to even more flaws being discovered this year as drivers become alert to design faults, the top U.S. car safety official said Tuesday. Recalls of air bags and ignition switches last year contributed to an increase in ...
Takata snub of recall request not backed by data, NHTSA says
The top U.S. auto-safety regulator told lawmakers Wednesday there is no way Takata Corp. can justify limiting an air-bag recall to only high-humidity states. David Friedman, the deputy administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cited data that show humidity is less of a ...
Honda faces record $35 million U.S. fine for 1,700 unreported claims
The company blames the underreporting on "inadvertent data entry or computer programming errors" that spanned 11 years, according to an internal review submitted to U.S. authorities.
