“Volt Scam” Debate Misses The Point
Mark Modica, a former Saturn dealer GM bondholder, has leveraged his financial loss at the hands of the government bailout into a blogging position at the National Legal and Policy Center, a...
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Ask The Best And Brightest: Which Automaker May Be Fudging Their EPA Numbers?
The Environmental Protection Agency’s fuel economy testing system is notoriously weak, relying on self-reporting for the vast majority of vehicles, and exhibiting vulnerabilities to “gaming.” But...
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Washington: Traffic Camera Company Runs Press Relations for Lynnwood
The distinction between employees for a private photo enforcement firm and taxpayer-funded public servants blurred in the city of Lynnwood, Washington. Emails between city officials and American...
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Mercedes USA Boss Fired For “Serious And Repeated” Financial Violations
The German business paper Handelsblatt reports that Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Ernst Lieb, a 36-year Daimler veteran, has been fired for “serious and repeated” violations of the company’s internal finance...
View ArticleOur Daily Saab: Muller Losing Faith, Antonov Going Down
A TTAC tipster sent us a Teknikens Värld interview with Saab’s long-suffering would-be rescuer, Victor Muller, in which the eternal Saabtimist seems ready to admit defeat. In essence, he admits that...
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Creators Of Controversial Ford Ad Dismissed
Ad Age is reporting that Ford’s advertising agency, JWT, has fired the ad agency staffers behind a pair of offensive ads showing bound and gagged women in the back of a Ford Figo hatchback. Ford is...
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Cabal Of Chinese Managers Embezzles Billions
More than 100 senior managers of China’s FAW have been questioned and some have been detained over and unfolding scandal that involves more than 10 billion yuan ($1.61 billion) in assets that went...
View ArticleThe Redflex Bribery Scandal Reaches Ohio
It’s the kind of disgraceful corruption that would have seen its perpetrators swinging from a tree in a more forthright age: an alleged $2 million bribery program that has already seen a Redflex...
View ArticleVolkswagen Board Holding Emergency Meeting Ahead of Planned Friday Conference
Five senior members of Volkswagen’s supervisory board are meeting Wednesday to discuss the future for the automaker after stock prices have plummeted and the company has publicly acknowledged it...
View ArticleTotal Recall: Volkswagen Group Will Fix 8.5M Vehicles in EU
Volkswagen Group will recall 8.5 million vehicles in the European Union’s 28 member states, including the 2.4 million vehicles it is already being forced to recall by the KBA, Germany’s transportation...
View ArticleThe Volkswagen Diesel Saga So Far
On Friday, September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency notified Volkswagen that its cars violated clean air standards by incorporating a “defeat device” that used engine management controls...
View ArticleVolkswagen CEO Muller Outlines Plan To Save Automaker From Scandal
Speaking for the first time as Volkswagen chief, newly hired CEO Matthias Müller outlined his plan for the automaker’s future in the wake of a growing scandal for its illegally polluting cars. Müller’s...
View ArticleMerkel: ‘VW is Working On This With All of Its Power’– Including Asking...
On her weekly podcast, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel said Volkswagen’s scandal hasn’t harmed the German automobile industry’s image, but that the automaker would need to conduct its investigation...
View ArticleVolkswagen Engineers Blow Whistle, Admit to CO2 Cheating
A number of Volkswagen engineers cheated on tests used to determine carbon dioxide emissions because goals set by former group CEO Martin Winterkorn were too demanding and difficult to achieve,...
View ArticleMitsubishi Fudged Japanese Mileage Data Since 1991
Mitsubishi’s fuel economy scandal blew up yesterday after the automaker admitted it has issued misleading mileage data since C+C Music Factory was at the top of the charts. The scandal that started...
View ArticleMitsubishi President Resigns Over Fuel Economy Scandal
He’s been with the company since the Plymouth Sapporo/Dodge Challenger era, but Mitsubishi president Tetsuro Aikawa’s tenure comes to an abrupt end in June. Aikawa stepped down today after less than...
View ArticlePiston Slap: Is VW’s Emissions Scandal Saving or Killing TDI Culture?
TTAC regular David Holzman writes: My brother and several of my friends are wondering what to do about their TDIs. There are probably hundreds of thousands more like them! Some issues with keeping...
View ArticleAntitrust Regulators Worried German Auto Industry Has Been Running Secret...
Government authorities are concerned that Germany’s automakers have been running one of the biggest CARtels in history. Allegedly active since the 1990s, automakers used secret working groups to remain...
View ArticleFeds Allege FCA Executives Bribed UAW Officials to Play Nice
Former Fiat Chrysler labor relations chief Alphons Iacobelli pleaded guilty to two of seven charges relating to his role in a plan to divert more than $4.5 million in training center funds to union and...
View ArticleUAW Courtroom Drama Reveals ‘Culture of Corruption’ Among Senior Leadership
The training center embezzlement scandal currently rocking the United Auto Workers began with the indictment of a former Fiat Chrysler labor chief who offered kickbacks to select union officials in...
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