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Toyota has issued two recall campaigns, one for the 2016 Sienna and a second affecting the latest Rav4, Lexus ES 350 and RX 350. Toyota has discovered a problem, Brake Actuator assembly unit is defective on these models made for the US market. Thus, it has announced a recall affecting 4,170 examples of the 2016 RAV4, just 90 units of the 2016 Lexus RX 350, and 12,400 units of the 2016 ES 350.To fix the problem, Toyota will check out all the affected vehicles, and if the part number corresponds to the batch of bad ones, they will replace it. All known owners of the affected Toyota vehicles will...
Fiat Chrsyler Automobiles (FCA) recently announced the recall of 14,700 model year 2015-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs because of the problems related to power steering and braking.In January 2016, a supplier had a machine failure that caused parts of be incorrectly manufactured. FCA opened an internal investigation after the supplier notified the automaker about a left front caliper that failed during a test. Additional tests showed the caliper housing falls below specification on torque fatigue and pressure fatigue tests.A cracked caliper can cause the risk of a collision or...
The biggest U.S. carmaker General Motors raised its 2016 earnings outlook on Jan. 13 Wednesday as it follows up a banner year of U.S. sales with major product launches and touted the benefits of hard-won efficiencies.General Motors has put together a respectable string of sales strategies: 28 consecutive months of growth in commercial vehicle sales to companies.As GM pulls back from less-profitable sales to rental agencies, the company has channeled much of those resources into the more-lucrative business of selling pickups, vans and Chevrolet Malibus and Equinoxes to contractors, landscapers ...
Subaru automaker decided to overhaul its engineering, design and technology strategies to keep the brand competitive on a global scale. The main two changes concern a new modular platform, Subaru says will improve safety and driving performance, and a new design language dubbed Dynamic X Solid to enliven the brand's image.Besides this, Subaru will roll out new automated-driving technologies beginning with a traffic-jam autopilot. This function will allow the vehicle to start and stop automatically in slow traffic and steer automatically around curves. Subaru's ...
Important job cuts are planned at Volkswagen in Germany. The automaker is to cut about 3,000 office jobs in Germany by the end of 2017. The company strives this way to offset the cost of its emissions test-rigging scandal.The Volkswagen brand has initiated an efficiency program that is affecting all areas, including personnel costs. Costs can be cut by reducing temporary work contracts, filling vacancies internally and making fewer hirings, the spokesman said, declining to be more specific. VW is cutting investment by 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in 2016 compared with last yea...
