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Perspective

Dec. 5, 2012

Automakers take heat for fudging numbers

The EPA recently concluded an investigation that revealed that Hyundai and Kia overstated fuel efficiency numbers on 900,000 of their vehicles by as much as six miles per gallon. By Jonathan Michaels


By Jonathan Michaels


You would think that billion dollar companies that grace the halls of the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal and the Fortune 500 would have the good sense to govern themselves with principles of honesty and integrity. If they don't do it because it's the right thing to do, you would expect that they would at least do it protect the reputation they worked so hard to build.


Yet, pursuit of the almighty dol...

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