Sentences with phrase «costs by the car makers»

[3] The report estimates the costs to be at most 577 EUR per car, but also notes that this is likely to be an exaggeration of the costs by the car makers, similar to the cost over-estimation on catalytic converters in the late 1980s.

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But at $ 109,000 each the Roadsters are not cheap, and like more established car makers Tesla has been hit hard by the recent turmoil in financial markets as well as by cost overruns and production delays for the car.

By adopting modular engine architectures car - makers can reduce development costs and, to put it crudely, the 2.9 - litre Porsche V6 is effectively the company's new 4.0 - litre V8 minus two cylinders.

It was feared the V8 petrol engines from both car - makers could have been killed off and replaced by a twin - turbo V6 as part of the general downsizing trend in search of lower emissions, but now thanks to sharing its considerable development costs the well - loved V8 configuration will live on for at least another generation at both Audi and Porsche.

But car makers are busy building plug - in hybrids like the Passat GTE because governments have been so fixated by CO2 emissions they've skewed the tax costs hugely in favour of those cars which seem to be green, and the useless official economy tests, which proclaim the Passat GTE will emit just 39g / km and do 166mpg.