Recalls have become big news again, and the industry requires better ways to anticipate and mitigate them rapidly and surely
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Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it was recalling about 1.48 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America due to a potential transmission downshift issue that could increase the risk of a crash.
In this new world of advanced driver assistance systems, features like lane-keeping assistance, automatic emergency braking and collision avoidance are integrated with windshields.
The biggest strategy shift in Volkswagen's 80 years has its roots in a weekend crisis meeting at the Rothehof guesthouse in Wolfsburg on October 10, 2015.
Last month, Bosch agreed to pay nearly $131 million to settle claims from Fiat Chrysler diesel owners and resolve all investigations by 47 U.S. state attorneys general into its involvement with diesel vehicles, including into the Volkswagen emissions cheating.
No car on the road today can completely drive itself — that includes Teslas.
Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 182,000 pickup trucks worldwide to fix an electrical problem that can knock out the power steering.
The EPA and Department of Justice this month announced a settlement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that amounts to some $800 million in civil fines, recall repairs and environmental remediation, and, pending court approval, a settlement with vehicle owners.
A former employee at Kia's corporate headquarters says he warned the automaker as far back as 2017 that faulty engine recall work was to blame for car fires.
Kia plans to recall tens of thousands of cars and SUVs, the automaker told Scripps station WFTS in Tampa late Tuesday.
Consumers suing Hyundai Motor Co and Kia Motors Co over an engine defect that allegedly caused some of their vehicles to spontaneously catch fire on Thursday filed an amended complaint that included detailed accounts and pictures of the fires that have garnered widespread attention in the media and were scheduled for a hearing before the U.S. Senate.
Hagens Berman, consumer-rights law firm representing owners of certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles prone to spontaneous engine fires, has filed an amended lawsuit against the automakers with added plaintiffs and harrowing footage of the potentially deadly fires attorneys say are being willfully ignored by Hyundai and Kia.
U.S. officials had accused the company of installing software that enables certain diesel trucks to emit far more pollutants than emissions laws allow.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department that would end a two-year criminal investigation into whether it knowingly sold diesel vehicles that violated clean-air rules, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.
A Federal Court judge presiding over the Australian "dieselgate'' class action against Volkswagen has ordered the company to name which board members and those in senior management knew that their diesel-engine cars were fitted with software designed to cheat on a test that measured exhaust emissions.
A German court said Friday it had opened the way for shareholders to join a collective legal action against Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler for diesel cheating that mirrors one already brought against VW.
Volvo AB, the world's second-largest truckmaker, will set aside $780 million (7 billion kronor) to address a faulty emissions-control component that's worn out more quickly than expected.
It is not uncommon to make mistakes, especially if you're a car manufacturer, producing thousands of cars in a day. However, while some faults can be shrugged off as minor slip-ups other errors cause the company to recall the cars, sometimes in huge numbers, incurring massive financial losses in the process.
Do you drive a new Volkswagen Golf R, Audi A3, or Audi TT? Then you might want to watch out, because your car could be leaking fuel into the engine bay.
Volkswagen AG supplier IAV GmbH has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $35 million fine for its role in the German auto giant's emissions-cheating scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
