airbags

Mitsubishi Motors South Africa has announced a recall for all Pajero models built between 2007 and 2016, saying it needs to inspect "potentially defective airbag inflators" supplied by Takata.The action involves as many as 7 449 local Pajero models, with Mitsubishi saying it is in the process of contacting ...

Toyota South Africa has revealed that it will be recalling certain Prius and Lexus CT 200h models due to faulty airbags.The campaign comes in the wake of other global recall campaigns by the automaker involving over 3,3 million vehicles for faults such as defective airbags and fuel emissions controls. ...

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THE first airbag patents were filed back in 1951 and published two years later by engineers Walter Linderer (from Germany) and John Hetrick (from the US). The world had to wait until the 1970s before this safety feature debuted on production cars. Today, we have front, knee, side, roof, seatbelt and ...

We're going to tell you what we see playing out in this video:We reckon that's not the driver of the Hyundai Matrix's wife who he's stopped to flirt with in the middle of this rather tough looking neighbourhood. We think his suspicious wife has rigged the airbags in the car to deploy should they detect ...

Ever wondered how well your car would fare in an accident?The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is a European car safety performance assessment programme based in Brussels, Belgium, and founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport and backed ...

Ever wondered how well your car would fare in an accident?The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is a European car safety performance assessment programme based in Brussels, Belgium, and founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport and backed ...