Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) initiates voluntary preventive measure for select 2014 City and 2015 Jazz vehicles produced and sold in the country for immediate updating of the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software. During the evaluation of…
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has formed a team to investigate the reported “sudden and unintended acceleration” incidents involving a car model manufactured by the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC). The DTI, in accordance…
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) recently announced to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) that it will conduct a safety inspection campaign on the Lancer Evolution and Lancer EX 2.0 models, as part of the campaign…
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has resigned in the wake of the company’s admission that it has cheated on emissions regulations by using special software. The company’s diesel cars can apparently detect when they are being subjected…
DETROIT — Volkswagen AG’s smog-test scandal escalated Tuesday as the company acknowledged putting stealth software in millions of vehicles worldwide. The crisis has already cost VW more than 24 billion euros ($26 billion) in market value. The…
FRANKFURT, Germany—Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal escalated dramatically Tuesday when the automaker revealed 11 million of its cars worldwide could be affected, wiping a third off the company’s market value and threatening to topple its chief executive. As…
FRANKFURT, Germany—German auto giant Volkswagen’s shares plummeted nearly 20 percent Monday as investigations spread into revelations that hundreds of thousands of its diesel cars have software that secretly thwarts US pollution tests. Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker by…
NEW YORK — Ford is recalling 433,000 vehicles, including 2015 Focus, C-MAX and Escape models, because of a software problem that could keep their engines running after drivers try to shut them down. Ford Motor Co. says…
Airbags, invented and installed to help prevent deaths in road crashes, have now become a potential threat to safety in some vehicles. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging owners of certain Toyota, Honda,…
It’s a case of unintented consequences: General Motors’ deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who…
