2024-06-25 12:28:20
The Italian Competitors Authority (AGCM) has fined DR Cars €6 million for “unfair business practices”. The federal government company alleged that the corporate “misleadingly” implied that the DR and EVO-branded automobiles had been made in Italy, when in reality they had been made in China.
In response to the AGCM, the deceptive messages and commercials started round December 2021 and “point out Italy because the origin and place of precise manufacturing” of their fashions. Nonetheless, this isn’t the case, as they’re really made in China “aside from some minimal ending.”
The federal government claims the “misleading apply” misleads customers and should have helped the corporate’s gross sales. It famous that “the apply coincided with a interval of robust gross sales of DR and EVO model automobiles within the Italian market.”
The doc additionally contains images displaying that the DR 3.0 and DR 5.0 are an identical to the Chinese language fashions Chery Tiggo 2 and Chery Tiggo 4, however with swapped emblems.
A couple of years in the past, DR Cars fashions had been provided formally in Bulgaria as effectively.