German carmakers, fighting for a future for diesel technology in Europe, faced a setback after a Stuttgart court ruled in favor of a complaint seeking to ban all diesel cars from entering the home city of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Diesel driving bans would be an ...
For years, Toyota Motor Corp. focused on pushing its hybrid models in Europe, avoiding a diesel-for-diesel competition with market leaders including Volkswagen AG. The carmaker's strategy is finally paying off. In the first full year since Volkswagen's emissions scandal threw the German giant into disarray, ...
Nissan Motor Co. has come up with a new type of gasoline engine that it says may make some advanced diesel engines obsolete. The new engine uses variable compression technology, which Nissan engineers say allows it at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ...
Diesel adds to the family They say Italians like big, extended families, making the Italian brand Diesel's new additions to its family of stores very apt. And it's twins! Diesel has opened a brand new store in Aoyama and next to it is another new one for ...
Volkswagen AG said it has approval to repair most of its rigged European diesel engines and made a deal with U.S. regulators to resubmit questionable software for review in 85,000 other vehicles, signs of progress in its effort to overcome the two-month-old emissions crisis. German ...
Volkswagen's new chief executive Herbert Diess apologized at the Tokyo auto show Wednesday for the automaker's emissions-cheating scandal, promising to win back customer trust, and said it will delay the launch of a diesel vehicle in Japan. The head of VW's Japan division, Sven Stein, ...
Thirty-six diesel cars under Volkswagen group brands imported privately to Japan have software that can cheat on emissions tests, the transport ministry said Friday. It is the first time the so-called "defeat device" software has been found on the German automaker's vehicles in Japan. The ...
Mercedes-Benz will continue to promote diesel cars in Japan despite the negative impression that Volkswagen AG has cast on the fuel technology with its emissions-cheating scandal. Mercedes is aiming to double the proportion of diesel-powered cars it sells in Japan to 10 percent this year, ...
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called for diesel cars to be banned from the French capital by 2020 and said pedestrian-only neighborhoods should be created in the city center as part of a plan to fight pollution. Hidalgo told the Journal de Dimanche in an interview ...
Mika Ninagawa updates Etro's paisley, sumo stable Kokonoe-beya branches out to street fashion, while Common Sleeve mix and matches with more than 30 brands.
Honda Motor Co. may have cracked the formula for success in India: a diesel-powered compact sedan. The Amaze, introduced in April, drove the automaker's sales to a record the following month and propelled Honda to third place among carmakers in Asia's third-biggest market from as ...
The Italian denim magnate Diesel and EDUN, the niche eco-friendly brand developed by musician Bono and his wife, have something in common — a love of Africa and its artistic scene. It makes sense then that last year they announced DIESEL+EDUN, a denim collection, ...
