Your state’s department of motor vehicles already knows what make and model of car you own, and sends you registration documents every few years that you have to open. Safety advocates have sug...
A modern supply chain is a complicated thing. That car you drive might be made in the U.S.A., but — as we learned from the Takata airbag recall — the parts inside it, from raw elements to ful...
https://consumerist.com/2017/10/11/why-you-should-care-about-an-aluminum-supply-scandal-in-japan/
Even though CarMax, the nation’s largest seller of used cars, has been called out publicly by safety advocates and federal regulators, a new report claims that more than 1-in-4 vehicles being s...
https://consumerist.com/2017/09/29/27-of-vehicles-at-carmax-have-an-open-safety-recall/
Honda must pay more than $484 million to resolve customers’ financial losses related to vehicles equipped with shrapnel-shooting airbags from Takata and step up its efforts to ensure the danger...
So far, more than 46 million shrapnel-shooting Takata airbag inflators have been recalled by more than a dozen automakers. With more airbags being added to the recall list, it might come as no su...
Federal safety regulators and Honda have opened investigations into what could be the 13th U.S.-based death linked to recalled shrapnel-shooting Takata airbags. Honda announced Thursday that a Ta...
https://consumerist.com/2017/07/28/honda-investigating-another-death-possibly-tied-to-takata-airbag/
Last week, federal regulators revealed that millions of additional Ford, Nissan, and Mazda vehicles would be recalled for containing Takata airbag inflators that could explode violently despite c...
https://consumerist.com/2017/07/21/ford-to-try-to-avoid-recall-of-2-5m-vehicles-with-takata-airbags/
Recently bankrupt auto parts maker Takata is once against adding to its roster of potentially dangerous airbags, this time recalling 2.7 million airbag inflators that could explode violently desp...
A twelfth death has been linked to the deployment of a shrapnel-shooting Takata airbag, marking the 11th such incident in a Honda vehicle. Honda today revealed that it has linked the June 2016 ...
https://consumerist.com/2017/07/10/twelfth-death-linked-to-ruptured-takata-airbag-in-honda-accord/
After months of speculation, embattled auto parts maker Takata has officially filed for bankruptcy following a massive shrapnel-shooting airbag recall affecting more than 42 million vehicles and ...
https://consumerist.com/2017/06/26/what-does-takata-bankruptcy-mean-for-deadly-airbag-recall/