BUSINESS
September 15, 2000 | Associated Press
DaimlerChrysler Corp. paid $400,000 to settle a dispute with U.S. safety regulators over whether the auto maker delayed two recalls last year. The penalty was one of the largest ever collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The dispute involved two recalls. The first, in January 1999, covered 700,000 1993-1997 LH sedans with 3.5-liter engines. The fuel rail that delivers gasoline from the tank to the engine had a seal that could degrade and cause leaks.
BUSINESS
November 15, 2000 | TERRIL YUE JONES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The mood among Chrysler workers was as glum as the rain that drizzled on their North American headquarters Tuesday as the U.S. arm of DaimlerChrysler absorbed news of the impending ouster of its president, the latest in a series of executive departures. James P. Holden would be the latest top-level executive of the Chrysler Group to be axed or to leave voluntarily since the takeover by Germany's Daimler-Benz in 1998.
BUSINESS
December 29, 1998 | DONALD W. NAUSS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When DaimlerChrysler Corp. unveils its Jeep Commander concept vehicle today in advance of the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, it will fall short of the ambitious goal set two years ago to develop a revolutionary electric vehicle with a fuel cell powered by gasoline. The fuel-cell system in the Commander doesn't work, although DaimlerChrysler vows it will fix the problem in a few months. The car at the L.A. show, which runs Jan.
BUSINESS
March 15, 2000
General Motors Corp. said it has quit the Global Climate Coalition, a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan. Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. withdrew earlier.
NATIONAL
November 26, 2008 | TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Automakers cannot sue to block Rhode Island from enforcing tighter standards on tailpipe emissions first adopted by California, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres dismissed General Motors Corp., DaimlerChrysler Corp. and two automakers' associations from the case, but his ruling permits several local car dealers to pursue the lawsuit. The automobile manufacturers have lost similar cases in California and Vermont. In his ruling, Torres said, "It is difficult to see what interest the public has in permitting the plaintiffs another bite of the apple in challenging regulations limiting the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."