Mercedes-Benz Fined Payer Supreme Being in the U.S.

Jakarta -- German car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz automobile manufacturers turned out to be the largest payer of fines in the United States.

Fines are an administrative penalty payable to the Mercedes-Benz Obama-led government because of the vehicle from the manufacturer does not meet fuel efficiency standards that have been established America.

According to reports from the Security Traffic Safety National Highway America or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Mercedes-Benz is required to pay a fine of up to $ 6.8 million or approximately USD 67.3 billion.

As reported by leftlanenews, that amount was considered small by Mercedes-Benz, but if you look at the numbers, it still is the number of fines is the largest of the six manufacturers in Uncle Sam's a fine country for the past 2009 years.

Total fines are withdrawn from the U.S. manufacturers that do not meet their own emission standards reached $ 13 million or around Rp 12.8 billion.

This figure includes a small indeed if we look at the fine to be paid only Merceds-Benz in 2008 which reached $ 28.9 million. When the Mercedes-Benz was second while the top is on Daimler Chrysler at $ 30.3 million fine by the U.S. government.

The high value associated penalties own emission standards is the result mernurut NSTHA manufacturers are playing on the premium class is not likely to heed the fuel consumption problems in their consideration of building a car. Expected with the fine, manufacturers have started to think about the fuel consumption.

U.S. government itself is currently mengodok a new regulation related to these emission standards for car manufacturers who only sell under 400,000 units per year in the U.S. automotive market.