Naughty car industry fined for anti-competitive behaviour

[wurlycorner]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/car- ... n-law-case

Stellantis evidently pleaded for leniency (on what grounds who knows…)

[bobins]

Car manufacturers working for their own benefit and against the buying public's interest ??? Who'd 'ave thunk it, eh ???

[Gibbo2286]

I'm struggling to see what they actually did, something to do not with new cars but with scrappies.

[wurlycorner]

It’s summarised in the second and third bullet point right at the top.

They stifled competition between themselves to produce cars that are as recyclable as possible - thus potentially meaning that they didn’t develop cars to be as recyclable as they could have. That’s anti-competitive market manipulation, acting as a cartel to save themselves costs.

They colluded not to pay third parties to recycle their cars. That’s anticompetitive market manipulation, acting as a cartel to save themselves cost and to destroy independent businesses in the industry.