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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Mercedes-Benz is recalling 400,000 UK cars owing to a fault that may deploy an airbag by error, the company said on Monday. A statement issued by the carmaker owned by German giant Daimler said the situation was not related to the airbags crisis at Japanese group Takata. Mercedes said it was recalling models — the A, B, C, and E-Class as well as the CLA, GLA, and GLC — built […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Japanese carmaker Honda reached a $605 million settlement in a lawsuit over defective airbags in millions of cars on American roads, the legal team for the victims said Friday. Honda joins Nissan, Toyota, BMW, Mazda and Subaru in agreeing a deal to settle a lawsuit, replace the defective airbags from now-bankrupt Takata, and to compensate car owners. The latest agreement was filed in the US District Court in Miami. Peter […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks slipped Friday as traders returned from a three-day break, with Takata hammered by news US regulators had ordered it to expand recalls of faulty airbags blamed for at least 13 deaths globally. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday ordered the embattled company to recall between 35 and 40 million more airbags installed in US cars. That is on top of the 50 million already recalled globally, including […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Honda has confirmed another death involving a Takata airbag, bringing the global total to 11 fatalities in a scandal that has set off the biggest auto recall in US history. The latest death came last week when a 17-year-old Texas teenager died from injuries sustained after her 2002 Honda Civic collided with another car, activating the defective airbag. Honda’s US unit on Wednesday confirmed the death, which is the 10th […]
