Regulation & Safety

Honda audit finds Takata engineers manipulated airbag test data

The results of the audit will factor in Honda's investigation into whether it should recall some additional Takata inflators, a Honda spokesman said.
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By:
Craig Trudell and Margaret Cronin Fisk
July 18, 2016 05:00 AM

TOKYO/DETROIT -- Takata Corp., the airbag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of airbag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor Co., according to an ongoing audit commissioned by the supplier and its biggest customer.

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