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Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche appear equally motivated to empower women at their companies. The reasons are altruistic, but also economic. Women represent an important customer sector.Daimler estimates that in Germany 32 percent of car buyers are women. Breaking the numbers down further, Daimler said that 20 percent of the people who purchased a Mercedes-Benz or Smart model in Germany in 2014 were female and that figure was nearly double in the United States. Zetsche has even compared the growth of female car buyers to that of the growth o...
It was reported that 164.063 Mercedes vehicles were sold this April worldwide, which is more than last year's April for approximately 11%. The first four months of the year sold around 650.000 units, which is definitely a good record for the company.This April is considered to be the 38th consecutive record month for Mercedes-Benz sales. The company sales grew up to 11% thanks to strong delivers in Europe and China, which helped offset flat demand in the U.S.Ola Kaellenius, the sales chief of Mercedes sales said the company had a good start to the second quarter because...
Mitsubishi says that the company was cheating on Japanese fuel economy tests back in 1991. An independent panel of investigators was hire in order to get to the bottom of what happened, they'll have three months for preparing a report about the deception. Mitsubishi's cheat consists of the way it calculated driving resistance to determinate fuel economy. According to its statement the company had engineers that were using their own high-speed coasting test to establish the driving resistance. Even if in 2007 the company has decided to use the country's mandated evaluatio...
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...
Rumors of a dealer class action against Volkswagen have swirled for months, and we have already mentioned about this in one of our previous blogs. But now, a prominent dealer attorney, Leonard Bellavia of Mineola, N.Y., declared he is prepared to file a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of U.S. dealers who supported financial damage after VW’s emissions scandal.The attorney declined to identify his clients, but he mentioned that whether the lawsuit is filed depends on whether the company can reach a settlement with dealers that compensates them fairly for the finan...
