Earlier this week, Volkswagen announced the recall of 840,000 Audi and VW-branded vehicles equipped with shrapnel-shooting Takata airbags. But according to documents recently posted by regulators, the already embattled carmaker resisted the safety initiative.  In a letter [PDF] sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Volkswagen said that while it would comply with regulators’ request for a recall of vehicles with certain Takata airbags, it believes the measure is “overbroad.” The letter goes on to explain that the airbag inflators used in VW and Audi vehicles were made at Takata’s German factory, which hasn’t been connected to ruptures like those produced at U.S.

 

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