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Are you driving a car with a potentially dangerous safety problem?

Seems like we're always hearing about another car recall, but those are only the big ones. Each year, automakers issues hundreds of recalls that involve tens of millions of vehicles – and most never make the news.

"Too many people are not getting those recalls fixed, in large part because they often don't even know that they have a recall on their vehicle or they know they have a recall and they think they have to pay for it,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety. “Recall repairs are free. They're required by federal law. If you get a recall notice or hear about it on the radio or TV, get your vehicle into the dealer. They have to fix it and they have to fix it for free.”

There are only two reasons for a safety recall: The vehicle has a safety defect or it violates a federal safety regulation in some way. read more »

Miracle or mirage? Bosch’s diesel 'breakthrough'

World-leading auto supplier Bosch recently announced a bright future for diesel, claiming dramatic new innovations which would slash emissions. Too good to be true? Or can we dare to dream of a diesel future?

"Success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan" — at some point in our lives, most of us have reflected on the essential truth behind the aphorism.

The biggest recent failure of Germany's mammoth engineering industry is 'Dieselgate', the emissions-cheating scandal that became public knowledge in 2015 and which has wrought dramatic changes in Germany's darling car and engineering industries ever since.

When the depth of that scandal became fully apparent, many ran for the hills. Volkswagen, the main offender, had nowhere to hide and bore the brunt of the backlash.

Yet it's important to remember that many more titans of German engineering were involved, not least the famed Bosch company,which admitted supplying a component ('electronic diesel control unit 17') that helped VW diesels cheat the emissions tests. read more »