Stellantis launches yet another recall over Takata airbags

You’d think enough years had passed for the Takata drama to subside, but it seems to be far from over with 441,000 Citroen C3 and DS3 being under a no-driving order from Stellantis right now.

Most C3 and DS3 models assembled for Europe from 2014 until 2019 are affected. The company launched an investigation following a driver’s death in France caused by a faulty airbag and concluded that all units were to be replaced. The bag deployed at a seemingly random moment without any provocation, so all drivers are considered at risk until they replace theirs.

Takata airbags ended up in the midst of a massive scandal back in 2013 when an investigation linked their faulty design to numerous false deployments, many of those leading to deaths and injuries. The company went bankrupt in 2018.