I tini the airbag was only supplire ffor a brief period on the American export models. I'm pretty sure that the standard wheel does not actually have the airbag fitted. Apart from other considerations it would require colision sensors and a whole lot of wiring that doesn't exist.
You might well be right, I just assumed it looked so awful because it had an airbag somewhere inside it but it probably doesn’t
As you say there are no sensors
