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Located in the heart of the New Orleans, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome has captivated audiences from all over the world hosting Super Bowls, Final Fours, major concerts, Monster Jam, and festivals of all kinds. And with a stunning spot on the New Orleans skyline and its iconic design, the Superdome is one of America鈥檚 most recognizable landmarks. Give your guests the experience of a lifetime in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome by hosting your event directly on the Dome floor. Whether planning a turf party for a few hundred guests or a main arena floor event for thousands, the Superdome is the ideal special event location. The field is where the action happens and with Turf Parties, guests have the chance to be a champion! The Superdome is a blank canvas ready for creative programming ideas that will bring a unique experience to your attendees. For general sessions, the tiered seating produces excellent sight lines, ensuring that each attendee has the best seat in the house.

The Superdome has the space and the technology to take your meeting and presentation to the next level. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome hosts more than just football games. During the off-season, the Dome Floor is prime space for trade or consumer shows. With almost 162,500 square feet of column free space, convenient on-site parking facilities, and in-house electrical and booth services, the Superdome is the ideal venue for any type of trade or consumer show programming. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome offers additional options for event programming and meetings with smaller attendance figures: the Premium Bunker Club Lounges and the 200 Level Club Lounges. These spaces routinely accommodate a wide range of events including: corporate meetings, theater style presentations, private or public receptions, and weddings - just to name a few. These luxurious areas are equipped with high-end furnishings and state of the art sound and audio visual elements to make your event seamless from start to finish.

VW is currently unaffected by these extensive recalls, but as we noted in August, a 2015 Tiguan experienced a side-airbag rupture. All told, U.S.-market VW Group products are fitted with roughly 2.4 million Takata airbag inflators. UPDATE 11/2/2015, 4:00 p.m.: Honda is recalling a group of 515 2016 CR-Vs for driver鈥檚-side front airbag inflators that could separate in the event of a crash. 200 million total if further violations are discovered. UPDATE 11/4/2015, 9:45 a.m.: Honda has announced that it will no longer use airbag components from Takata. In a statement, Honda said: 鈥淲e have become aware of evidence that suggests that Takata misrepresented and manipulated test data for certain airbag inflators.鈥?According to Automotive News, Honda has been Takata鈥檚 biggest customer for many years. UPDATE 11/6/2015, 9:55 a.m.: Following Honda鈥檚 lead, both Toyota and Mazda have said they will stop purchasing airbag inflators from Takata, at least those that incorporate ammonium nitrate.

According to Automotive News, Mitsubishi and Subaru also are considering dropping the airbag supplier. Nearly 40 percent of Takata鈥檚 sales in 2014 came from airbag parts. UPDATE 11/9/2015, 10:35 a.m.: Nissan has now joined Toyota, Mazda, and Honda in announcing that it will no longer use Takata-supplied airbag inflators. UPDATE 11/23/2015, 1:45 p.m.: Ford is the latest carmaker to declare that it will no longer use Takata airbag inflators with ammonium-nitrate propellant in its new cars. Ford is the first non-Japanese company to take this step. UPDATE 12/4/2015, 11:00 a.m.: Japan鈥檚 transport ministry has banned Takata airbag inflators that use ammonium nitrate as the propellant (and without a moisture-absorbing desiccant) from being installed in future cars. According to Automotive News, such airbags 鈥渨ill be phased out from driver鈥檚-side airbags by 2017 and passenger-side devices by 2018.鈥?Vehicle models that are subject to Takata-related recalls have a six-month-shorter time frame for the phase-out.

UPDATE 12/23/2015, 12:15 p.m.: NHTSA announced today that another person has died as a result of a faulty Takata airbag inflator. The fatal July 2015 crash occurred in a 2001 Honda Accord. Although the crash happened in Pennsylvania, the car had spent several years in the humid Gulf region. Also, the agency has been informed of five new ruptures to passenger-side airbags, which is 鈥渓ikely鈥?to result in expanded recalls of the 2002-2004 Honda CR-V, the 2005-2008 Mazda 6, and the 2005-2008 Subaru Legacy. UPDATE 1/4/2016, 3:00 p.m.: The New York Times has detailed the contents of some internal Takata emails from more than nine years ago. 鈥榩ressure vessel failures,鈥?or airbag ruptures, . 鈥?in an email to a colleague about how to graphically deemphasize the 鈥渂imodal distribution鈥?of some tests conducted at high temperatures. Meanwhile, Automotive News reports that some Japanese carmakers 鈥渕ay jointly invest in Takata鈥?in order to soften the financial hit that the airbag supplier is facing as a result of these massive recalls.