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News about car recalls are not a rarity anymore. Among other announcements about vehicle recalls throughout the world, Fiat Chrysler reported it is recalling nearly 600,000 Jeep Wrangler SUVs and Fiat 500 subcompact cars worldwide. Wranglers are being recalled to inspect the clockspring, a part in the steering wheel that aids with airbag deployment. The automaker declared after an investigation that dust and dirt gathered from off-road driving can compromise the clockspring and eventually prevent driver-side airbag deployment in a crash. For the moment there are no rep...
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'...
New cars sold in U.S. in May and June will retain about 47,8% of their sticker prices, which is down from the current 52% value for three-year-old vehicles. Customers will have a strong credit availability, five years of high residual value retention rates are predicted thanks to increased demand for new vehicles, and of course the low prices for gas. It's been revealed that for six straight years, U.S. light-vehicles sales have been growing, the record of 17,5 million vehicles sold a year ago is included too. Another 3,3% of sales grew were registered for first four month...
Ford Motor Company does business in a vast number of markets across the globe, no wonder it's quite interesting and not so easy to follow the up and down momentum of Ford's sales in its three most important markets: China, Europe and, of course, the United States.On Friday Ford announced its total sales in Europe rose 4.7% during April as Europe's automotive market continues to expand. The last month was an especially solid period for commercial vehicles, SUVs, performance cars, and higher priced trims. Commercial vehicles continues to be a strength for For...
Ride sharing apps that could compete with Uber for example, are one of the current interests of Apple. With sales of iPhones slowing, the company decided to diversify its investments and it will provide about $1 billion for the development of the Chinese-based Didi ride sharing app. Didi materialized last year and it became China’s largest ride sharing app. Additional services provided by Didi include taxi and private car services and even test drives. Apple CEO Tim Cook said they are extremely impressed by the business Didi have built and their excelle...
