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Toyota recalls 1.43 million vehicles for defective air bags

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This follows already giant calls by millions every year by Toyota which has been going on for a number of years now. This is quite bad and really shows that Japanese auto makers have a real problem in quality control.

Honda and Nissan have also recalled cars by millions recently (not only for the Takata airbags problem).

Even smaller companies are affected. Last october Mazda has announced a recall of nearly 1 million cars in Japan for faulty ignition switches which can catch fire, some of the models recalled dating back to 1989...... Suzuki recalled last year 1.99 million vehicles for the same problem.

Recently Mazda issued a stop sale on all 2014-2016 CX-5s for fuel filler pipe problem that could rupture during a rear-end collision, potentially causing a fuel leak (a similar defect affected their cars in the 1970s which resulted in injuries). We can also mention the 404,000 CX-5 SUVs recall for fire risk last February, the 2015-'16 Mazda 3 recall for a fire risk and a stalling risk, or the recall in 2014 affecting 19,000 Mazda 6 due to fuel overfill fire risk.

The list goes on for all Japanese auto makers....

It's troubling that all Japanese car makers are affected by massive recalls constantly through time, really troubling.

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Glad to see that Toyota can be bothered to recall, even in massive numbers. All global car makers should take note. The customer has to come first.

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Perhaps they need to tighten quality control before they ship out cars?? Eventually they're reputation is seriously going to be impacted. Please don't become Toyota=recalls.

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Considering the obvious deaths from the Takata airbag abroad being mute and not a big issue here in Japan, one can assume there are hundreds of defects requiring recall but aren't.

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