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Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
Ashland/Valvoline passing on the Dexos 1 label is a purely financial decision, they don't want to pay the royalty-and Dexos has (somewhat) opened a can of worms in the motor oil certification business. Every company now seems to have exotic oil certifications, such as FIAT's new specs for high performance engines, etc.-wondering if they all cost a royalty as Dexos does?
Fiat has always had them, just like BMW, Mercedes, VW...etc. Even GM had them "back in the day", there just wasn't the royalty scheme associated with it. Ford's WSS approvals have been around for ages as well.
What we are seeing now is more exposure being given to them due to Dexos and GM as well as FIAT's ownership of Chrysler.
Ashland/Valvoline passing on the Dexos 1 label is a purely financial decision, they don't want to pay the royalty-and Dexos has (somewhat) opened a can of worms in the motor oil certification business. Every company now seems to have exotic oil certifications, such as FIAT's new specs for high performance engines, etc.-wondering if they all cost a royalty as Dexos does?
Fiat has always had them, just like BMW, Mercedes, VW...etc. Even GM had them "back in the day", there just wasn't the royalty scheme associated with it. Ford's WSS approvals have been around for ages as well.
What we are seeing now is more exposure being given to them due to Dexos and GM as well as FIAT's ownership of Chrysler.