Fiat Chrysler, in Settlement Talks With U.S., Is Under More Pressure<br />By JACK EWINGMAY 18, 2017<br />FRANKFURT — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, one of the world’s biggest carmakers, said on Thursday<br />that it was in talks with the Department of Justice to settle an investigation into diesel deception, as growing evidence points to the carmaker’s use of illegal software to evade emissions tests.<br />Volkswagen’s use of such illegal software in 600,000 Volkswagen, Audi<br />and Porsche diesel cars sold in the United States, out of 11 million fitted with the device worldwide, has caused it enormous problems.<br />With the exception of Volkswagen, though, European carmakers have been able to escape consequences because of loopholes in European rules<br />that allow carmakers to throttle down pollution controls to protect the engine.<br />" the study said. that We find strong evidence that both defeat devices were created by Bosch<br />and then enabled by Volkswagen and Fiat for their respective vehicles,
