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Volkswagen has a lot to worry about with respect to its diesel-emissions cheating scandal. On the civil side, it’s already anticipating divvying out $15 billion to make right with regulators, states, and customers over hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles that contain a software-based cheat allowing them to emit many times the permissible amount of nitrogen oxide. While the settlement with U.S. regulatory authorities largely resolved VW's obligations to the federal government, the automaker also faces potential criminal charges relating to the use of emissions-cheating software i...
While smart cars are a 21st century thing, the convenience has a darker side. Researchers have shown that it takes a tool as cheap as $40 to bypass the “keyless system” in tens of millions of Volkswagen cars, including Audis and SEATs.Four European researchers say hackers can easily eavesdrop on the signal which is sent every time a driver presses their key fob to lock or unlock a car. All the thieves need is a cheap technical device and to be somewhere within 100 meters of a vehicle. Flavio Garcia and his team at the University of Birmingham reverse-engineered an undisclosed compo...
Last year the U.S. auto sales set an all-time record for the first time in 15 years. The slow but steady economic recovery, low interest rates and depressed gas prices managed to make the 2015 economic environment a carmaker's dream. Unfortunately, this dream may morph into a full-fledged nightmare in just a few short years at least for members of the industry establishment like Ford Motor Co. (ticker: F), General Motors Co. (GM), Honda Motor Co. (HMC) and Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) If we take a look at the U.S. vehicle sales in 2016 thus far, we'd see no particular reason to p...
July's green-car sales results, while still somewhat tepid, were enough to make auto-industry watchers downright patriotic, as increased demand for Ford and General Motors' hybrids and plug-in vehicles partially salvaged what was still a tough month. In fact, take out the impact of Volkswagen's continued stop-sale on diesel vehicles (of which more than 8,000 were sold in July 2015), and green-car sales were about dead-even with year-earlier figures. As it was, US green-car sales fell 17 percent to about 40,500 units. As for plug-in vehicles, demand spiked 20 percent from a year ear...
Toyota Corolla is the new big hit in the auto industry, the new model has ended the Hyundai 130's record four-month winning streak. After the Korean car brand has removed the discount of $7500 on Hyundai models, it was pretty obvious that a new king-car is gonna take its place and this time it's Corolla. An 11-year sales high in June across all small vehicles has been posted by Hyundai i30, but it took a massive down this month by a staggering 65 per cent, from 6400 to just 2200. Hyundai costs at around $19,990 with its big discount, but once the discouns was done ...
