Wednesday, October 21, 2015

VW scandal: cessation of sales for new cars with manipulation software – Heise Newsticker



In response to the arranged by the Federal Motor Transport Authority recall VW has imposed a sales ban on the scandal-diesel, which are still the merchants

The exhaust gas scandal at Volkswagen

VW has admitted that most eleven million motors are equipped with software to manipulate the evaluation of pollutant emissions. Trigger of the scandal, the VW CEO Martin Winterkorn cost the job, were investigations by the US Environmental Protection Agency

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In the scandal over manipulated exhaust emissions, Volkswagen has now an EU -wide sales stop for cars imposed that are equipped with the manipulation software. The Group informed traders in a letter from the action, like a VW spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Aģentu r and the Automotive Week confirmed.

The Stop applies according to the report of the Automotive Week for new cars with EA189 diesel engine without first registration, which are still at the merchants. The number of affected vehicles is limited, an exact number was still being dealt. The vehicles will be retrofitted and newly marketed after review by the authorities again. In some cases, could not be delivered by the stop vehicle orders, admitted the speaker. They said they were, however, already in communication with each client

Earlier, the Federal Motor Transport Authority had ordered a recall of all vehicles covered by the manipulation -. 2.4 million diesel in Germany. More than 2,000 garages in Germany are noisy Volkswagen authorized for retrofit action that should probably start from 2016. ‘/ P>

In September, the US Environmental Protection Agency had announced that the Volkswagen Group against emission limits many diesel models violated. Volkswagen has the control device manipulated with them that cars emit in laboratory tests significantly less nitrogen oxide than on the street. (With material of dpa) / (AXK)

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