HORIBA, the Japanese owner of former UK Motor Industry Research Association proving ground (MIRA), is coughing up a further £6m to enhance its capabilities with a 12,000 sq ft advanced vehicle emissions test centre.
The new facility at MIRA’s campus near Nuneaton will provide automotive testing for global compliance, including Euro 6 and the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), as well as incorporating Real World Driving Emissions (RDE).
This core plant will contain a 4WD climatic chassis dynamometer and four soak rooms, complementing an existing advanced track complex for on-the-road assessment.
Already the world’s leading manufacturer of automotive emissions testing equipment, HORIBA is most famous for providing the mobile rigs which exposed VW’s diesel emissions cheating in the USA. Its developmental investment since acquiring the historic MIRA site last July will now total £22m.