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It's been 3 weeks now since we've wrote about the last car recall which belongs to Takata, and we were absolutely convinced that it will take a while until a new brand finds out about some vehicle defects, but it looks like we were wrong. The next automaker that is about to recall its vehicles is BMW, more than 180,000 X3 and X4 crossovers are being recalled in the U.S. in order to fix some faulty lower anchor bars used in securing child restraint seats. The 2011-17 models of X3 that were manufactured between July 2010 and April 2016 and the models of X4 manufactured between March...
Honda Motor expects its global sales to remain strong thanks to brisk sales in the U.S. and China. Japanese automaker expects its group operating profit to jump 19% to 600 billion yen ($5.58 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2017.Through the previous year Honda had important expenses because of the recalls of vehicles with defective Takata air bags, including recalls demanded in May by U.S. authorities. Therefore, the matter will have no impact on earnings in the current fiscal year, as quality-related expenses are to decrease considerably. ...
Jaguar Land Rover has recently reported record sales and a 10 per cent rise in revenues, but this didn't increase the annual profits of the carmaker. On the contrary, annual profits at Jaguar Land Rover have paradoxically fallen 40 per cent.This year the British automaker's sales increased 13 per cent to 521,571, and it is the first time the company has broken through the half-million sales barrier. JLR said its pre-tax profits fell down considerably a year earlier, primarily reflecting market conditions during the first half of the year, especially in Chi...
Recent news about U.S. car recalls because of technical problems with Takata airbags have to be completed with new details from Toyota Motor Corp. that is recalling almost 1.6 million additional vehicles for front passenger side Takata airbag inflators that could rupture.Faulty Takata inflators have been linked to more than 100 injuries and 13 deaths worldwide. Toyota said the new recall includes some but not all Corolla, Matrix, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna, Scion xB, Lexus ES, GX and IS vehicles built between 2006 and 2011. This report will be folowed by data from other 17 auto...
Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata Corp. is expected to additionally recall around 40 million additional inflators in U.S. vehicles. The expanded recall will be phased in over several years and more than double what is already the largest and most complex auto safety recall in U.S. history. After the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reviewed findings from three outside investigations concerning the defective airbag inflators, Takata had to work on a plan for the expanded callback. The inflators contain propellant that can deploy with too much f...
