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Toyota Rusted Frame Settlement Agreement Nears
A Toyota rusted frame settlement agreement is one step closer to being finalized for owners of 2005-2010 Toyota Tacoma, 2007-2008 Toyota Tundra and 2005-2008 Toyota Sequoia trucks. The rusted frame...
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Mercedes-Benz Recalls 48,000 Cars in 3 Recalls
Mercedes-Benz is recalling nearly 48,000 cars in three recalls to fix problems with airbags, axle bolts and brakes. The largest of those recalls involves 47,799 of the following models: 2016-2017...
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Volkswagen Recalls Jetta, Eos, GTI, Rabbit and Golf Cars
Volkswagen is recalling certain more than 135,600 model year 2009-2010 Volkswagen Jetta A5 sedans, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagens, Eos, GTI, Rabbit, Audi A3 and 2010 Volkswagen Golf A6 vehicles to...
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Fiat Chrysler Recalls Trucks and SUVs to Fix Takata Airbags
Fiat Chrysler (FCA US) is recalling more than 100,700 older vehicles to replace Takata airbag inflators at risk of causing injury or death, with some vehicles needing driver-side inflators and others...
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VW Executive Oliver Schmidt Arrested in Florida
Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt has been arrested in Miami and charged in a criminal complaint for his alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and customers by using emissions...
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Volkswagen Gets Approval to Fix Certain 2-Liter Diesel Vehicles
Volkswagen finally received approval to fix certain 2-liter diesel vehicles to make their emissions systems legal, at least for about 67,000 of the 475,000 illegal 2-liter "clean diesel" vehicles. The...
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BMW Recalls 3,500 Vehicles To Fix Autoliv Airbags
BMW is recalling more than 3,500 vehicles to replace seat-mounted side airbag inflator modules that may fail to ignite during a crash. BMW names the recalled vehicles as the following: 2017 BMW 640i...
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Honda Recalls Nearly 1.3 Million Vehicles to Fix Takata Airbags
Honda is recalling nearly 1.3 million vehicles to replace Takata airbag inflators, with some of those for vehicles already included in prior Takata airbag recalls. Honda says about 772,000 of the...
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Volkswagen to Pay $4.3 Billion to U.S., 6 VW Executives Indicted
Volkswagen has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.3 billion in civil and criminal penalties for illegal schemes to manufacturer, advertise, import and sell about 590,000 "clean diesel" vehicles in the...
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Ford Recalls 816,000 Vehicles to Replace Takata Airbag Inflators
Ford is recalling more than 816,000 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles to replace passenger-side frontal Takata airbag inflators as part of a recent Takata recall of 5.7 million inflators. Ford says...
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Toyota Recalls 543,000 Vehicles to Replace Takata Airbag Inflators
Toyota is recalling 543,000 vehicles as part of an expansion of Takata airbag recalls, this time to replace front passenger-side airbag inflators. The recall comes with an announcement that Takata is...
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Takata to Pay $1 Billion, 3 Executives Indicted by U.S.
Takata, the company responsible for the largest auto-related recalls in U.S. history, will pay $1 billion for one count of wire fraud and for concealing deadly airbag defects since at least 2000....
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EPA Targets Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee Emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) have issued notices of emissions violations to Fiat Chrysler for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act....
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Maserati Recalls 2017 Levante S to Fix Shifting Problems
Maserati is recalling 1,515 model year 2017 Levante S SUVs to fix problems with the transmissions shifting into neutral when they shouldn't. Maserati says if the SUV is operated at speeds of about 2...
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Volvo Recalls S60, V60 and XC60 Vehicles to Fix Side Airbags
Volvo is recalling 377 cars and SUVs to fix airbags that may fail to deploy in a crash. Recalled are the 2017 Volvo S60 and S60 Cross Country, Volvo V60 and V60 Cross Country and the Volvo XC60. The...
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Nissan GT-R Melted Dashboard Lawsuit Filed in Florida
A Nissan GT-R melted dashboard lawsuit has been filed in Florida alleging the heat and humidity destroys the dashboards in the $100,000 cars. Based on court documents, the proposed class-action...
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GM Pays $1 Million Penalty For Accounting Failures
General Motors will pay a $1 million penalty to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges over GM's internal accounting controls and practices. The SEC says GM failed to...
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Government: No Safety Defects With Tesla's Autopilot
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has closed an investigation into how autonomous technology called "Autopilot" works in about 43,781 model year 2014-2016 Tesla Model S and...
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Tesla Recalls Model S to Fix Takata Airbags
Tesla may be celebrating being cleared in a federal investigation of its autonomous Autopilot technology, but at the same time the automaker is still having to do with other automakers seem to...
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Subaru Recalls 186,000 Vehicles to Replace Takata Airbags
Subaru is recalling nearly 186,000 vehicles in three recalls to replace Takata airbags after the airbag maker announced new massive recalls totally 5.7 million airbag inflators. The recalls are broken...
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