Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
Federal California judge was asked by Volkswagen Group to dismiss some claims in a suit filed by the U.S. government over diesel vehicles that cheat pollution controls. After the automaker got sued in January, being accused of using illegal devices on 600.000 Volkswagen and Porsche vehicles, it is considered that these devices are hiding the real diesel emissions. It's been said that VW defendants knew about the problem in 3.0 liter subject vehicles but they are still covering it. Are all of those 85.000 cars really inconsistent and lacking facts as U.S. claims, we don'...
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...
People like pointing out how dirty the electricity grid mix is after charging electric vehicles. Many love talking about plug-in cars that as they say contribute to pollution. This map from Carnegie Mellon University helps on finding out the cleanest cars based on their location. Researchers have compiled information about the gas emissions of different EVs considering their charge, they compared gasoline-powered vehicles to electric ones. In the research were tested Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Prius Plug-In Hybrid versus Toyota Prius hybrid and Mazda 3. By driving a Nissan Leaf in ...
Just as if the problems with the production haults at the Japanese plants were not enough, Toyota Motor Corp. notes a global sales decline in the first quarter of this year. Toyota's sales results fell behind Volkswagen AG's, and this disrupted the Japanese automaker's four-year reign atop vehicle industry sales charts. In the January-to-March period Toyota's worldwide deliveries dropped 2.3% to 2.46 million vehicles. In the same time Volkswagen deliveries rose 0.8% to 2.5 million. In the context of Japan's recent most devastating e...
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...
