New cars sold with defective air bags
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TOYOTA Motor Corp, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Volkswagen AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corp are still selling new vehicles with defective air bags that will eventually have to be recalled, the top Democrat on the US Senate Commerce Committee said in a report yesterday.
The report said the automakers confirmed they are continuing to sell some vehicles with ammonium-nitrate inflators without a drying agent. The vehicles are legal to sell but must be recalled by 2018, the report said.
The report by the top Democrat on the committee that oversees the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the latest to raise concerns about what has grown into the largest ever auto safety recall in history — now close to 70 million air bag inflators.
NHTSA has taken control of the massive recall, using legal authority to do so for the first time — and last year appointed a former federal prosecutor to oversee the effort.
“What’s troubling here is that consumers are buying new cars not realizing they’re going to be recalled,” US Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat and the report’s author, said in a statement. “These cars shouldn’t be sold until they’re fixed.”
Takata inflators can explode with excessive force and spray metal shrapnel into vehicle passenger compartments. They are suspected in 13 deaths worldwide and more than 100 injuries.
Ford Motor Co said yesterday it is expanding its Takata air bag recalls by nearly 1.9 million vehicles — and more recalls are expected later this week.
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