Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it will recall approximately 816,000 more vehicles, in addition to those models it had previously recalled, that have been fitted with faulty airbags by Takata Corp.
In total, the automaker is looking to recall three million cars worldwide that have been fitted with malfunctioning air bag inflators. Most of these vehicles are in the United States and Canada.
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The manufacturer originally recalled select Ranger (models from 2003-2006), GT (2006), and Mustang (2005-2014) automobiles in 2015 when Takata had revealed the fatal flaw in its air bag inflators.
Ford’s car recall follows Honda Motor Co.’s recall earlier this week; the Japanese manufacturer is looking to recall about 1.3 million vehicles in the United States, bringing the total number of US-registered Honda vehicles recalled for Takata-related concerns to approximately 11.4 million. Globally, the total number of air bag inflators Honda has recalled is around 51 million.
Reuters reported that many of the cars involved in both Ford and Honda’s recalls were included in previous recalls for slightly different reasons, such as the location of the airbags. For this week, the recalls were in relation to passenger-side front airbags.
To date, there have been 11 reported deaths in the US due to defective Takata airbags.
Reuters noted that 10 of these fatalities involved Honda vehicles, and one Ford. All 11 deaths involved driver-side airbags.
On its website, Transport Canada said that it has not received any complaints from Canadian motorists claiming abnormal deployment of airbags and is not aware of any related incidents, so far.
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