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Car scandal destroys the company

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Scandal is not a good thing for a brand and specially for  car company .Recently Volkswagen (VW) has suspended the sale of more than 4,000 vehicles in the UK over fears they could have been fitted with the same emission cheating device used in the US. The scandal-hit car company said the vehicles it is preventing from being sold amount to just 3% of its stock and all of them had not yet been registered . Furthermore , The company recently announced   nearly 1.2 million vehicles in the UK   are affected by the fraudulent emission software, meaning they could be producing more emission gasses than legally allowed. The German car maker admitted there could be as many as   11 million diesel vehicles   fitted with the device. The affected vehicles include five million VW-branded cars, 2.1 million Audis, 1.2 million Skodas and 700,000 SEATs .   The  Volkswagen scandal could spell the end of the diesel engine, experts have predicted, as the f...

Fiat Chrysler Advance Jeep cost them fortune

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Fiat Chrysler brought up with advanced Jeep recently , but  it cost them fortunes .Because of violating laws in a series of safety recalls of the consumers, US government fining Fiat for record breaking $105 million dollar. Also , Fiat Chrysler will be required to buy back a group of recalled vehicles to get them off the roads. Furthermore, The company will make payments to owners of 1.56 million recalled older-model Jeeps with gas tanks behind the rear axle to bring them to dealers to install trailer hitches to help protect the tanks. The tanks are vulnerable and can leak gasoline if damaged in rear collisions. The company maintains the Jeeps are as safe as comparable vehicles built at the time, and it will not buy them back The fine beats the old record of $70 million assessed against Honda Motor Co. for lapses in recalls of air bags made by Takata Corp. As a result , the brand image of Fiat has been damaged by massively. The company on July 24 also...