Nightly Business Report . Mercedes pays $6.8M in fuel efficiency fines | PBS I'm sure this is for not meeting CAFE numbers. The summary of CAFE fines at CAFE | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA) | U.S. Department of Transportation hasn't been updated yet to reflect this. It'll be interesting to see who else pays and how much.
Too bad MB didn't make a bunch of "Flex-Fuel" SUV fleet vehicles ... so they could phony their numbers like GM did. .
Well, Mercedes did make some flex-fuel cars. See the lists at Growth Energy Market Development and http://www.e85fuel.com/promoitems/2010_purchasing_guide.pdf. FWIW, Toyota's getting gotten into this game as well.
