German prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected tax evasion at VW Group that relates to the understating of CO2 levels in some of the automaker's vehicles and focuses on five employees, who were not identified.
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Renault disputes test results showing NOx emissions from its Espace 1.6-liter diesel variant were up to 25 times higher than allowed under Euro 6 limits.
NOx emissions from Renault's 1.6 dCi diesel-powered Espace were found in tests to be up to 25 times higher than the current Euro-6 limit, a German environmental lobby group said in a report today.
European automotive supplier organisation, CLEPA,has cancelled its Aftermarket Conference scheduled for this Thursday (26 November) in Brussels, due to the Belgian Federal Crisis Centre ramping up security around the event venue.
The German government is considering expanding the powers of technical inspectors examining cars in the wake of VW's emissions cheating scandal.
There has been a flurry of announcements in recent weeks concerning the next wave of high-tech components.
The world's third largest brake supplier is to put production equipment currently used to supply doomed Australian OEMs on to the global market after local car production ends in 2017.
The EU plans to present a report by the end of this week on CO2 emissions from cars, according to an official with knowledge of the issue. The document will include data on pollution by automakers with the exception of Volkswagen Group.
The Spanish government, facing an election next month, plans to extend a car purchase subsidy scheme that has massively boosted sales until the middle of next year, a source at the Industry Ministry said.
SsangYong, the smallest, oldest, and worst-named of Korea's motor manufacturers, has finally produced a car that measures up to the competition in the European market. The Tivoli is a B-sector supermini-SUV crossover which bears comparison with the Nissan Juke and Opel/Vauxhall Mokka which lead this expanding class - and with UK prices starting at GBP12,950, undercuts equivalent models by GBP2,000 or more.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will invest GBP450m to double the size of its UK engine manufacturing plant.
The Honda Prelude, one of the Japanese automaker's first attempts at a fun, sporty car, goes on sale in Japan on Nov. 24, 1978.
Audi pits an RS 7 in a test for the best against ... an elevator.
Tesla plans 90D and 70D variants of the Model X crossover, the latter of which will include a 70 kilowatt-hour battery pack and a sticker price of $80,000, plus a $1,200 shipping charge.
Audi said today that it will revise emissions control software used on more than 85,000 Volkswagen Group vehicles with 3.0-liter diesel engines that U.S regulators said earlier this month violated U.S. clean air laws.
PSA will cooperate with Brussels-based green lobby group Transport and Environment to measure and publish the real-world fuel consumption of its vehicles, CEO Carlos Tavares said.
The steps needed to fix about 8.5 million Volkswagen cars in Europe fitted with illegal emissions-control software are technically and financially manageable, the German automaker's CEO said today.
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