The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has been found more wrongdoings related to the Hino Motors engine emissions certification fraud, on top of previously announced offenses on 4 March and 2 August 2022, Hino-owner Toyota Motor said this morning in Japan.
The added “facts following were found in the emission performance deterioration endurance tests conducted by Hino on all of the company’s vehicle engine models subject to the 2016 emission regulations in Japan.” Thus the embarrassing anti-environmental aspects of the cheating scandal are still expanding. (AutoInformed: Toyota Motor FY Q1 Profit Drop Spooks Market) Continue reading
GM Recalls 500,000 2021-22 SUVs for Bad Seat Belts
General Motors is recalling 2021-2022 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with third-row seats. The safety defect covers 2021-2022 Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with third-row seats. These six product lines, of course, are among the most popular and profitable SUVs sold in North America.
“The rivet that retains the buckle to the mounting bracket in the left- or right-side third-row seat belt buckle assembly may have been improperly formed,” was the defect cited in a mandatory NHTSA filing made public today. GM had reports of the problem going back to October of 2020. Workers at GM supplier ZF Occupant Safety Systems manufacturing plant in Mexico may have not properly followed processes and inadvertently missed the rivet forming operation. Continue reading →