The next BMW 6 Series will be a sports car designed to take on the Porsche 911 - Exclusive! BMW is preparing a sports car rival for the Porsche 911 - as well the separate return of the 8 Series badge - Auto Express can exclusively reveal. The German brand is hatching a radical plan to realign its 6 Seriesmodel as a smaller, more agile sports car - allowing space at the top of the range for the return of the 8 Series. 鈥?The BMW 8 Series is back! New GT range to include M8 supercarBMW has not contemplated a Porsche 911 rival before but the newMercedes-AMG GT鈥檚 arrival as a competitor to the 911 has changed that. BMW has earmarked the 6 Series as the car to fill the that gap in its range. A smaller 6 Series could feasibly be based on the shared sports car platform that BMW has been working on with Toyota. Auto Express understands that the current proposal is for the 6 Series to become a sports car and convertible only, with no Gran Coupe in the future. This model would live on as an 8 Series Gran Coupe - offered alongside the two-door coupe and a convertible.
An American Honda spokesman told the Associated Press that the driver was likely killed by other injuries sustained in the high-speed crash and not those inflicted by the defective airbag(s). The 2007 Civic is not currently part of Honda鈥檚 recalls in the U.S., but it might be added to the list soon. UPDATE 2/3/2016, 10:15 a.m.: Mazda has recalled all 2004-2006 B-series pickups for potentially defective driver鈥檚-side airbags. The B-series is a rebadged Ford Ranger, and this recall expansion mirrors the one we described on January 26 for the Ranger. Some 19,000 Mazda trucks are affected in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Saipan. These B-series models had previously been recalled for their passenger-side airbags. In total, Mazda says it has issued recalls for 442,266 driver鈥檚-side airbag inflators and 416,475 passenger-side inflators. The up-to-date list of Mazdas is below; many have recalls outstanding for multiple airbags. UPDATE 2/3/2016, 6:00 p.m.: Honda dealerships in the U.S. Honda products: 2007-2011 CR-V, 2011-2015 CR-Z, 2009-2013 Fit, 2013-2014 Fit EV, 2010-2014 Insight, and 2007-2014 Ridgeline.
According to Automotive News, if dealers don鈥檛 abide by the stop-sale order, they could be liable for any injuries that occur as a result of defective Takata airbags in these cars, which number some 1.7 million. The aforementioned vehicles have not yet been added to our list below because the news is not yet official. UPDATE 2/4/2016, 8:30 a.m.: Honda has officially issued recalls for Takata-supplied 鈥淧SDI-5鈥?driver鈥檚-side airbags on 2.23 million vehicles. The Honda-branded vehicles are: 2007-2011 CR-V, 2007-2014 Ridgeline, 2009-2014 Fit, 2010-2014 FCX Clarity, 2010-2014 Insight, 2011-2015 CR-Z. Acura vehicles affected by this recall are: 2005-2012 RL, 2007-2016 RDX (early production MY2016 vehicles only), 2009-2014 TL, 2010-2013 ZDX, 2013-2016 ILX (early production MY2016 vehicles only). These vehicles have been added to our list below. Older vehicles and those in high-humidity locales will be given priority for the replacement parts. In the meantime, dealers have been issued stop-sale instructions for affected vehicles that haven鈥檛 been repaired.
These recalls are in addition to the 6.28 million Hondas and Acuras that had already been recalled for their airbags. UPDATE 2/8/2016, 11:00 a.m.: Seat-mounted side-airbag inflators with the code name 鈥淪SI-20鈥?are now under recall. Takata says this recall is limited only to inflators manufactured between December 13 and 14, 2014. A total of 1129 Volkswagen and General Motors vehicles from the 2015 model year are equipped with these inflators. NHTSA began investigating Takata side airbags in August after a side airbag in a 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan ruptured in June. UPDATE 2/9/2016, 2:10 p.m.: Daimler is recalling some 705,000 Mercedes-Benz cars and 136,000 Daimler vans in the U.S. NHTSA has indicated that the vehicles could contain defective Takata-supplied airbags. The Mercedes-Benzes are all from the 2005-2014 model years: SLK, C-class, E-class, M-class, GL-class, R-class, and SLS. The newly recalled vans are 2007-2014 Sprinters with Dodge, Freightliner, or Mercedes badges. UPDATE 2/10/2016, 11:30 a.m.: Audi, BMW, and Volkswagen are recalling some 1.7 million U.S.-market vehicles for potentially defective Takata-sourced driver鈥檚-side airbags.
The Audi recall covers 170,000 vehicles from model years 2006 through 2013. The Audis involved are: 2006-2013 A3, 2006-2009 A4 cabriolet, 2009-2012 Q5, and 2010-2011 A5 cabriolet. BMW is recalling 840,000 vehicles from 2006 through 2015; these vehicles weren鈥檛 among the roughly 765,000 that BMW had previously recalled for Takata airbags. The Volkswagen-branded vehicles, numbering 680,000, are from 2006 through 2014. The VWs involved are: 2009-2014 CC, 2010-2014 Jetta SportWagen and Golf, 2012-2014 Eos and U.S.-built Passat sedan, and 2006-2010 German-built Passat sedan and wagon. UPDATE 2/13/2016, 11:30 a.m.: NHTSA has updated its website with more specifics regarding what Mercedes-Benz models are affected by this recall. They are detailed in an update to this story that we published earlier this week. Also new to the list below is the 2006-2007 Chrysler Crossfire, which was based on a Mercedes-Benz. A total of 5283 Crossfires have been recalled. UPDATE 2/16/2016, 11:00 a.m.: General Motors has added roughly 200,000 Saab and Saturn products in the U.S. Canada to its list of vehicles covered by this recall. The cars involved are: 2003-2011 Saab 9-3, 2010-2011 Saab 9-5, and 2008-2009 Saturn Astra.
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