From VW to Suzuki: a timeline of automobile scandals

What began with Volkswagen admitting to cheating on emission tests in September last year, has now snowballed into several companies being implicated for manipulation of emission, fuel-efficiency data.

From VW to Suzuki: a timeline of automobile scandals
All is not well underneath the hood - workers assembling a car at an automobile manufacturing plant: Photo: Reuters

From emission to fuel-efficiency scandals, automobile companies today are too often embroiled in several such scandals.

What began with Volkswagen admitting to cheating on emission tests in September last year, has now snowballed into companies such as Mitsubishi Motors and Suzuki Motors admitting to manipulating fuel efficiency data.

Even Nissan in South Korea has now been allegedly implicated by the environment ministry for using a software which cheated on emission results.

It remains to be seen if there are any other automobile companies that get involved in such scandals.   

Here is a timeline of the global automobile scandals: 

 

 

 

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Written By: Collin Furtado
Updated: Thu, May 19, 2016
10:22 am
Mumbai, ZeeBiz WebDesk
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