Tatra is claimed to be one of the oldest living automotive manufacturers even though they don’t make cars anymore, just trucks. The company that started the legacy, Ignatz Shustala and Company, was founded in 1850 to make horse-drawn carriages before branching out into railway wagons and carriages. In those days the Czech Republic didn’t exist - the area was inside the … [Read more...]
The aftermath of the VW Scandal
So it is not long ago that the world was up in arms about VW and its ability to deliver emissions control test results that the authorities wanted. The scandal was embellished by the outrage of the media when they found out that VWs engineers had developed software that could detect if a vehicle was being tested and then reconfigure the engine management system to ensure that … [Read more...]
