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We guess that there is no person who has not heard about the VW diesel-emissions scandal. The company, which owns 70 percent of the U.S. passenger-car diesel market, is in major trouble for cheating on diesel-emissions tests. However, this scandal did not prevent the company to take the leading position in its sales for the first half of the year. The analyzed figures show that Volkswagen Group sold over 5 million cars and light trucks worldwide and more than any other automaker in the first half of 2016. According to the Center for Automotive Management, the carmaker sold up 0.8 p...
As you might already know from one of our previous article, FCA was reporting cheating sales for a while now. We don't know the right time when it all has started, but for sure the FCA dealerships were a part of the plan. Some of them have begun to receive subpoenas to provide documents or any proof that would show the company's reported sales weren't real. There are 2,650 U.S. dealerships which sell Fiat Chrysler's cars and it's still a secret how many of them received these subpoenas. One of these dealerships has talked about receiving subpoenas that ...
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...
By asking the electrified car owners why they consider they have made a good choice by buying a green car, you will hear many reasons which will justify it. Most of the owners are pretty convinced their plug-in hybrid have all of the positive attributes they were going for. In 2015 the U.S. Purchased 17.39 million passenger cars and light trucks, 43,143 of them were plug-in hybrids, or 0.25%, and 71,105 were battery electric, which is 0.41%. Plug-in market share in June 2016 wasn't really better than two years ago, but it doesn't change the fact that people never regret buying a hybrid...
The Volkswagen's proposed recall plan was rejected this week by California's Chief Regulator. We all know about the huge scandal will fuel-emissions of the company and the huge settlement it has to pay to the owners and government to cover the damage it created. VW has managed to compose a whole plan on how to fix 16,000 3.0 liter diesel VW, Audi and Porsche models, all of them being equipped with devices designed to cheat emissions tests. The plan was insufficient, that's what Air Resources Board commented on this issue. On a letter CARB says that VW and Audi's...
