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Air-bag crisis deepens with Toyota, Nissan expanding recalls

The safety crisis involving faulty air bags that shoot shrapnel deepened after Toyota and Nissan added more than 6 million vehicles to their global recalls, with Honda planning to expand a call back.

By Ma Jie, Bloomberg, Masatsugu Horie, Bloomberg, Yuki Hagiwara, Bloomberg | Updated on May 13, 2015
Child seats manufactured by Takata are displayed at a Toyota's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota and Nissan are expanding their recalls over problem air bags made by Takata. Toyota said it was recalling nearly 5 million more vehicles globally for the air bag inflator problem -- some 637,000 of them in the U.S. In Japan, it is recalling nearly 1.4 million vehicles. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

(Bloomberg) — The safety crisis involving faulty air bags that shoot shrapnel deepened after Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. added more than 6 million vehicles to their global recalls, with Honda Motor Co. planning to expand a call back.

Toyota will recall about 5 million more cars involving 35 models manufactured from March 2003 to November 2007, after finding air-bag inflators in Japan that could be susceptible to abnormal deployment in a crash, according to an e-mail from the company. Nissan will call back 1.56 million and begin notifying customers in June, said Dion Corbett, a company spokesman.

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