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The U.S. government and private auto-safety raters made evident this week how tougher standards are moving beyond crash tests that just measure passenger protection. Now, they're evaluating systems that can avoid accidents altogether.The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that 48 vehicles earned its highest rating of "Top Safety Cars." Toyota, Honda and Subaru are the winners, with 23 combined. Volkswagen and its luxury brand, Audi, had seven winners. Volvo, Hyundai and Mazda each had multiple winners. The Chrysler 200 was the only domestic car to earn the ...
Takata Corp. handled their air bag crisis is the very reason why they lost one of their biggest investors, Sawakami Asset Management. He was one of the automotive supplier, 12th largest shareholder, but the firm lost faith in Takata after the management refused to explain what was happening during the crisis. “We could not help feeling the management is not trustworthy,” fund manager Takahiro Kusakari said in an interview from his office in Tokyo. “We felt Takata had a ‘we are needed and our products are needed, so the business will come back and the situation won&...
Focused on three Chevrolet Cobalt crashes, a federal laywer sued with General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches. Despite finding "probable cause" to believe GM committed a crime or fraud by hiding the defect from regulators and the public, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman found no showing that the automaker and its law firm, King & Spalding, produced the documents with an intent to further such misconduct.GM now says ignition switches can turn to off or accessory when they're bumped, or if a driver has a heavy key ring. When that happens, a car has no power steeri...
U.S. authorities investigate all members who may cause in the Volkswagen's scandal emissions. Now it is German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch occupied with preparing of the key components in the diesel engine for six Volkswagen models and one Audi model that the automaker has admitted to rigging to defeat emissions tests. This situation is still not opened to the public, but it is known that U.S. prosecutors have found evidence of wrongdoing at Bosch. Bosch produces the so called EDC17, an engine control module and a basic software for nearly all the four-cylinder di...
Boss Ralf Speth plans to grow in business and to have a steady place in automotive industry, rather than enjoying the sales volumes as their German competitors do. “We won’t sell millions, or be high street,” he said about Jaguar Land Rover, which has multiplied its annual car sales to almost half a million since Tata took over the company in 2008. Speth pointed out that BMW sold more in the last period than JLR will in the whole year of 2015. So they still had to compete on a global basis.Speth takes as a target the CO2 vehicles. But before this JLR expands its products...
