American Honda takes extraordinary measures in wake of latest Takata recall - Torque News

With Takata finally stepping up to the mic and announcing the scope of this monster, now involving 30,000,000 + vehicles, and 10 automakers, American Honda announced an expansion of their ongoing airbag recall measure, and what the company is... Honda’s recall is expanded to 6. 28 vehicles. As of May, 28. 2015. that’s an additional 350,000 vehicles included in Honda’s extraordinary preventative recall measure. Note: It will take time for Honda to identify this latest round of impacted vehicles. However, according to A. H. M. , no Honda or Acura car or light truck manufactured later than 2012 is included in the recall. Furthermore, Honda has arranged through participating dealers a loaner car program for impacted consumers without interim transportation. As of this posting Honda claims a repair rate of 50,000 vehicles per week, and little to no backlog as to model specific replacement parts. American Honda Motors further reports that multiple airbag component manufactures have been brought on board to help facility an accelerated and relatively seamless recall experience for Honda owners. Source: www.torquenews.com