Wheelies: The Nice Crackdown Edition The police in Edina, Minn., are planning a yearlong crackdown on the kind of driving violations that many, if not most, drivers make, but it is unlikely to result in a surge in tickets, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Jeff Long, the police chief of Edina, told the newspaper that the effort was intended to educate drivers with verbal warnings. "We are trying to pick violations that people kind of know about but don't have a lot of experience with, and that we don't typically stop people for," he said. Each month the police will focus on a different violation, like failing to turn on headlights in the rain or failing to signal a turn. In January, the emphasis is on proper removal of snow and ice from cars before driving. Minneapolis Star Tribune Nissan has scored the hat trick in lowering the price of its Leaf electric vehicle. The automaker, which earlier announced cuts in the price for the cars in Japan and the United States, is cutting the price in Europe by 3,000 euros, about $4,000. Nissan has said it wanted to make the Leaf more affordable in its three main markets. The price cut in the United States was about $6,000. Detroit News Volkswagen is adding shifts at its plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, to meet demand for the new version of the Golf hatchback, which went on sale in Europe at the end of last year, Bloomberg News reports. The automaker, Europe's largest, said that orders had exceeded 100,000 and that three Saturday shifts would be added by the end of March.