Japan's Takata was brought down by the huge cost of its exploding airbag crisis. The company's faulty airbag inflators, which can blast shrapnel into drivers and passengers, have resulted in the ...

Just days after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would fine Takata Corp. for supplying faulty airbag inflators to more than 10 automakers, Toyota and Nissan said they ...

Vehicles made by 19 different automakers have been recalled to replace frontal airbags on the driver’s side or passenger’s side, or both in what NHTSA has called "the largest and most complex ...

Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...

"Due to the age of the vehicles equipped with defective Takata airbag inflators, there is an increased risk the inflator could explode during an airbag deployment, propelling sharp metal fragments ...

CARS.COM — Despite more than 28 million Takata airbag inflators being recalled in the U.S., some automakers are still using them in new cars even though they’re known to degrade over time ...

A day after Ford Motor Co. announced its Takata airbag recall was worse and more serious than initially believed, the besieged Japanese airbag supplier announced it reached a broad settlement with ...

The Takata airbag debacle is still ongoing. Nearly a decade after it started with multiple deaths and millions of vehicles under recall, sadly, people are still dying as a result of the defective ...

A recalled airbag was blamed for the death of a teenage driver in Texas, the latest fatality involving faulty Takata airbags. A driver of a 2002 Honda Civic in Fort Bend County, Texas, was killed ...

The first one was issued in 2015, and involved several vehicles with a Takata non-desiccated airbag inflator. This is the second Takata-related do-not-drive advisory from Ford, and the company ...