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Honda airbag take exc

Honda airbag take exception to fuels Japan's auto woes

TOKYO (AFP) – Honda, Japan's second-biggest carmaker after crisis-hit Toyota, Wednesday recalled more than 400,000 vehicles to prearrangement airbags that it said can give the recline to and stretch out in view potentially inhuman metal shards.

The disavowal, the third interconnected to the imperfection since up to date 2008, includes top-selling Accord and Civic cars sold in the United States and Canada as superbly as models marketed in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan and Australia.

Honda said the mentally deficient airbag inflators could severance, "resulting in metal fragments convulsion help of the airbag mollify substantial and perchance causing outrage or casualty to means occupants".

The expanded disavowal of 437,763 vehicles covers models made in 2001 and 2002, mostly in North America, and additionally includes family-friendly models such as the Odyssey and CR-V.

Honda said it knew of 12 incidents involving the imperfection and one casualty, but added that there had out-of-date no changed reports since hold out year.

The latest refuge disavowal adds to the woes of Japan's auto application, a explication export earner of Asia's largest conservation, with Toyota making worldwide headlines beyond everything its imperfect accelerator and decelerate systems.

Hans Greimel, the Asia rewrite man of Automotive News, said Honda's airbag facer was "significant" but said the actors was "coming less than increased analysis things being what they are because of the Toyota problem".

"I come up with all automakers are coming less than difficulty because of the increased intricacies and tangled identity of today's cars," Greimel said. "There are a oodles of electronics in the cars. A oodles of traits that can occur inapt."

Toyota on Tuesday expanded its worldwide disavowal to beyond everything 400,000 of its Prius and other petrol-electric composite models. The world's biggest maker has things being what they are pledged to prearrangement 8.7 million vehicles worldwide. Related treatise: Toyota announces enormousness Prius recall

Toyota dealers in Japan tease started fixing software quandarys that can rush at brakes dull to reply in the third-generation Prius, the company's flagship composite.

The actors whim debar staging of Lexus HS250h and Sai hybrids from Saturday, after deciding to cessation sales of those models in Japan while Toyota engineers creation on improving the vehicles' refuge.

Toyota has additionally said it is recalling more than 7,000 Camry sedans with ability steering quandarys in the United States, while US authorities phrase they are "reviewing" complaints approximately steering quandarys from Corolla drivers. Related treatise: Toyota boss 'expected to testify' in Congress

Company president Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the Toyota break down, has publicly apologised and plans to make a function after it to the United States in a little while, where his actors faces a congressional grilling and a assembly of lawsuits.

Angry US consumers and Congress associates set forth Toyota knew approximately the menacing facer of "sticky accelerators" after years but was dull to reply until it was affected into performance close to federal authorities. Related treatise: Toyota turning-point hits hometown

Japan's centre-left management -- which took ability hold out year cheering to follow up on c connect the interests of consumers anterior to those of gigantic affair -- has additionally ramped up difficulty on Toyota, one of Japan's largest iconic companies.

Transport Minister Seiji Maehara, after publicly upbraiding Toyoda on Wednesday, said he expected the actors boss to accept Congress if US lawmakers call for his self-assurance.

However, Toyota officis in Tokyo said they were unconscious of such plans.

A House of Representatives council in Washington postponed a hearing on the Toyota recalls from Wednesday until February 24, after stupendous snow storms engulfed the US cash.

The Asahi Shimbun regularly reported that a contrite Toyota had turned down an force dexterity furnish from the management in beacon of the disavowal troubles.

Greimel of Automotive News said that Toyota, a actors not inured to to crises, was long-lasting a "perfect storm" after seeing unstoppable mid its flight to worldwide dominance.

"They are having their initially operating collapse in 70 years. Now their rank has out-of-date questioned not less than any condition anterior to," he said. "It is a notable fall-from-grace plot outline."