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The US sales of the 2017 BMW diesel vehicles will be delayed. This is due to the fact that US regulators has not certified the models. Bimmer, which sells diesel-powered 3-Series, 5-Series, X3, and X5 vehicles in the US has not announced the date when such domestic sales would start. The BMW spokeswoman Rebecca Kiehne said that the product certification has been delayed due to testing logistics. She also stressed that the production of the BMW diesel models will start after finalization of the cars' homologation. The problem is that US regulators decided to take a more del...
It's been only a few days since we've wrote about Tesla's scandal, the rumors were flying for a few months now about its Model S having some suspension arms defects. Tesla Motors was blamed for a secret deal with gpcordaro, the pact pushed the owner to keep its silence about the auto problem. Tesla was asked to keep to comment on these claims, but the company decided to keep it silence from the start, which was more absurd and questionably. U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration took the issue with the practice after many customer reports on Model S. The co...
It's time to forget about those high cost of meeting new fuel economy standards and massive investments needed for autonomous vehicles, the biggest problem in the profitability of the automakers might be the buyers and their impatience.Less than 5% of new vehicles in U.S. in 2015 were built to customer order, which is so much lower than in Europe were about 50% of the vehicles were produced on customer orders. Did you know that for U.S. dealers it means thousands of dollars in extra floorplan expenses while for automakers it's a huge advertising and incentive costs for each unsold vehi...
A study published today revealed that more than four out of five people would prefer not to ride in fully autonomous vehicles. Almost 50% of the respondents would like to drive in a simple vehicle with no self-driving capabilities, maybe just with partially self-driving or completely self-driving technology, it is what the results of the study from University of Michigan show. Only 6% of the participants at this study would like to drive such a car, while 39% of them prefer partially self-driving cars. If we'd have to make some comparisons between the young drivers and the...
In order to take a controlling 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors, YOKOHAMA, Japan-Nissan Motor Co. is ready to invest 237 billion yen which is about $2.2 billion.This purchase is meant to transform Nissan into the single-largest shareholder of Mitsubishi. By May 25 the agreement between the companies will be signed and four directors to Mitsubishi Motors' board will be named by Nissan. Rumors say that even the chairman of Mitsubishi Motors might be Nissan's director. The deal must be completed within a year or it will be invalid. Looks like Nissan decided to save Mitsubis...
