Volkswagen has revealed it will be offering no compensation to owners of cars in the UK and Europe with illegally stated emissions. Only US owners will get a payout. Earlier this month we revealed that Volkswagen are to give owners of cars affected by the defeat device scandal in the US and Canada an immediate financial […]
Volkswagen Beetle Dune: The ‘Butch Beetle’ arrives in production guise
[nggallery id=2216 template=customlinks] The Volkswagen Beetle Dune – a more rugged take on the Beetle – arrives in production guise in Los Angeles as a coupe and cabriolet. On sale UK early 2016. Early last year, we had the VW Beetle Dune Concept arrive at the Detroit Motor Show as a (visually) rugged take on […]
VW CO2 emissions WRONG on 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8 & 2.0 PETROL engines
Volkswagen has admitted that a wide range of 2016 MY petrol-engined cars from VW, Audi, Skoda and SEAT have CO2 emissions that are not correct. Volkswagen’s follow-up scandal to the dieselgate defeat device scam – the confession that 800,000 VW cars have official CO2 and economy figures that are plain wrong – affects far more petrol […]
VW UK (and Audi, Skoda & SEAT) now say all CO2 and economy figures are ‘Provisional’
In the wake of the revelation that some 800,000 VW Group (VW, Audi, Skoda and SEAT) cars have wrongly stated emissions, VW makes them all ‘provisional’. Last week, VW confessed it had made an ‘error’ in stating the CO2 emissions and economy of up to 800,000 cars from VW, Audi, Skoda and SEAT, and that they […]
VW give US owners $1000 to “regain customers’ trust”. But what about the UK & Europe?
Volkswagen in the US is giving owners of cars wrapped up in the Defeat Device scam over $1,000 in an effort to regain trust. But nothing for the UK and Europe. The news that Volkswagen in the USA is giving owners of cars fitted with the Defeat Device to scam emissions test a $500 voucher […]
VW Emissions scam: VW will PAY additional CO2 tax for UK & EU motorists
Volkswagen has announced they will pay any additional tax incurred by UK & EU car owners whose cars have had their economy and emissions misstated by the company. Last week, Volkswagen admitted that they have scammed the official economy and CO2 tests for 800,000 cars in the UK and Europe, which opens up a whole […]
New car registrations FALL in October. Is this ‘VW DieselGate’ fallout?
New car registrations in the UK fell in October 2015 – the first time for 43 months – with VW down almost 10 per cent and falls for Ford and Vauxhall. We’ve got so used to new car registration in the UK rising every month (they’ve been heading inexorably upwards since early 2012) that an […]
Porsche, Audi & VW 3.0 Diesel sales HALTED in US over emissions scandal
The VW Group has halted sales of Porsche, Audi and VW cars in the US fitted with the 3.0 litre diesel engine after the EPA claimed they contained a defeat device. Earlier this week, America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared they believed that the VW Group had fitted a defeat device to their 3.0 litre diesel […]
VW Emissions Scandal: Now it’s CO2 emissions on 800,000 cars
Volkswagen has revealed it has ‘made a mistake’ in the official fuel economy and CO2 emissions on 800,000 VW, SEAT, Skoda and Audi cars. It seems there’s a lot more hiding in Volkswagen’s bag of dirty tricks than has been revealed with the #dieselgate scandal, with the German car giant now confessing that the official economy and […]
VW Dieselgate: EPA claim 3.0 litre diesel in Porsche & Audi scams emissions tests too
The Volkswagen Defeat Device scandal is threatening to grow, with EPA claims that the device is also fitted to the VW Group’s 3.0 litre diesel engines. There were rumblings in the early days of the Volkswagen Defeat Device story that it wasn’t just VW’s EA 189 diesel engine that had software that changed emissions levels during […]