Toyota has said it will recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially faulty airbags made by Takata.
Over 16m vehicles have been recalled worldwide since 2008 over Takata’s airbag inflators, which can explode with too much force and spray hazardous metal fragments.
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Toyota is recalling some Vitz/Yaris cars and RAV4 crossover models made between December 2002 and March 2004. About 40,000 are in Japan, 6,000 in Europe and the rest in other markets outside North America.
Toyota said it was not aware of any injury or death related to the recall.
Takata airbag recalls are expected to grow after US regulators (the NHTSA) called for a regional recall to be upgraded to a national one. It is thought that warmer and more humid climates make the airbags potentially more likely to become faulty.
Takata is resisting the NHTSA’s call for a national recall (arguing that it wants to concentrate resources where the problem is) and has been given a deadline of next Tuesday (December 2) to comply or face penalties.
