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30 Million Vehicles Now Under Recall Due To Potentially Deadly Airbags 30 Million Vehicles Now Under Recall Due To Potentially Deadly Airbags
30 Million Vehicles Now Under Recall Due To Potentially Deadly Airbags More than 953,000 Ford vehicles worldwide are being recalled as part of a wider, massive recall of Takata passenger airbag inflators that can explode when deployed and hurl shrapnel. The Ford recall includes 782,000 vehicles in the United States: the 2010 and 2011 Ford Ranger, the 2010 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX, the 2010 to 2012 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ, the 2010 and 2011 Mercury Milan, and the 2010 to 2014 Ford Mustang. At least 23 people have been killed worldwide by the inflators. A total of 30 million vehicles equipped with 50 million defective Takata airbags are under rec…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Probe Into Four Deaths Prompts Massive Kia Recall Probe Into Four Deaths Prompts Massive Kia Recall
Probe Into Four Deaths Prompts Massive Kia Recall More than 500,000 Kias are being recalled after a glitch was discovered that may prevent airbags from deploying, as investigators continue their probe into four deaths that may have been related to the vehicles. The recall of 507,000 Kias comes after the announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was investigating why airbags had failed to deploy in Kias and Hyundais that led to the deaths of four people and left six with injuries in a pair of separate incidents throughout the country. The Kia recall comes after a previous recall expansion by Hyundai - an aff…

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by Zak Failla