Automotive News: Maserati recalls 3,300 Levante crossovers for software bug, Audi board to meet over recent raids, Fiat Chrysler faces French probe for emissions violations, report says
Maserati recalls 3,300 Levante crossovers for software bug
Recalls are never good, but they're especially rough when they affect a car that's only been on sale for a short time, as is the case with the 2017 Maserati Levante.
Maserati has issued a recall for 3,299 examples of the 2017 Levante crossover. According to the defect report, Maserati expects every single recalled vehicle to contain said defect. The vehicles in question have production dates between July 1, 2016 and December 13, 2016. read more »
Audi board to meet over recent raids
Top officials at Volkswagen AG's Audi division will meet next week to discuss a raid by German prosecutors on the carmaker's premises last week and the standing of its embattled CEO, sources said.
Munich prosecutors last week searched the offices of Audi's Ingolstadt factory, a plant in Neckarsulm and other locations. Audi, its parent company Volkswagen and Jones Day, the U.S. law firm hired by Audi and VW to investigate the emissions scandal that has rocked both companies, were also targeted in separate raids. read more »
Fiat Chrysler faces French probe for emissions violations, report says
A French prosecutor has opened an investigation into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles over allegations that the carmaker cheated in diesel emissions tests, a judicial source told Reuters on Tuesday.
"I can confirm that a judicial investigation has been opened into aggravated cheating," the source said. read more »
