GM MPG Sticker Wrong? Told To Halt Sales By EPA

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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
5/16/2016

Sixty thousand model year 2016 Chevy Traverse, GMC Acadia, and Buick Enclave crossovers are now off the market at GM dealers in the U.S. because the Monroney window stickers show the wrong MPG. Of course, the MPG is too high. Funny how the MPG claims are never accidentally low.

 

GM admits the stickers are incorrect and blames a data transfer mistake. The Detroit Free Press reports that GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson said in an e-mail: "GM discovered an inadvertent error which affected the fuel economy information on the fuel economy labels on the 2016 model-year Acadia, Enclave and Traverse. The error caused the EPA estimated fuel economy to be listed on the window label as 1 to 2 m.p.g. more than it should have been. GM is stopping sale of the affected models until a corrected label is printed and affixed."

 

This does not seem to be a case where GM certified the vehicles itself and was then nabbed for cheating by EPA. GM is planning to print out and affix new stickers ASAP.