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Car modifications in India: What is legal and what’s not

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In fact, performing some weird modifications to your car may lead you to legal trouble. If you are planning to modify your car, here is a comprehensive guide with a list of legal and illegal modifications in India. Colour change: Changing a car’s colour is completely legal in India, but is subject to RTO’s approval.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XIII)

The Truth About Cars

As we learned in our last installment , the Cadillac lineup was revised visually for 1957, and would be revised again in 1958 once quad headlamps became legal. All Cadillacs breathed easier via a new dual exhaust in 1957. Fins grew, hoods smoothed, roofs leaned backward, and there were more Eldorado variants than ever before.

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Global MRV introduces first permanently embedded Micro PEMS for continuous onboard emissions analysis

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Global MRV is deploying Firefly technology to measure, report and verify the operations of light- and heavy-duty vehicles operating in normal driving conditions. Data availability in a ready-to-use format. Patented indirect exhaust flow measurement provides accurate PEMS flow data. Minimal set-up time. Rapid deployment.

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EPA issues a second notice of violation to Volkswagen alleging emissions cheating in MY 2014-2016 3.0L diesels

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The NOV alleges that the VW Group companies developed and installed a software defeat device—specifically, code in the electronic control module (ECM)—in certain VW, Audi and Porsche light duty diesel vehicles equipped with 6-cylinder, 3.0-liter This yields higher levels of NO x from the engine and reduced exhaust temperatures.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XV)

The Truth About Cars

It’s unclear whether that was a result of them arriving later in the model year (as all states approved quad lamps in 1958), or if Cadillac just didn’t sell any in states where quad lamps were not yet legal. The rest of the front end was a mix of details old and new. & That meant the fender area was metal sans interruption.

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UK unveils new plan to cut NO2; sale of new conventional gasoline and diesel cars to end by 2040; focus on local action

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Despite this, an analysis of more than 1,800 major roads show that a small number of these—81 or 4%—are due to breach legal pollution limits for NO 2 , with 33 of these outside of London. The UK assesses air quality, as well as legal compliance with these obligations, via a combination of monitoring data and modeling.

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Daimler balks at use of low GWP R-1234yf refrigerant, citing new internal safety findings; wants to continue using R-134a

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Much of the momentum for the shift originally came from the EU’s directive on mobile air-conditioning systems (MACs), which aims to reduce emissions of specific fluorinated greenhouse gases in the air-conditioning systems fitted to passenger cars (vehicles of category M1) and light commercial vehicles (category N1, class 1).