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 […]
Volkswagen’s ‘Dieselgate’ provisions turn profit to loss
Volkswagen has reported quarterly losses for the first time in 15 years in the wake of the dieselgate emissions scam, with a €2.52bn loss in the third quarter of 2015. The VW Defeat Device scandal may have been causing Volkswagen much grief for the last month, but the financial pain is only just starting to […]
Germany orders VW to recall ALL defeat device cars in Europe
The German government has ordered Volkswagen to recall all the models of VW, Audi, SEAT and Skoda with the defeat device in Europe – around 8.5 million cars. The German government, unlike the UK government, has ordered VW to recall all the VW, SEAT, Audi and Skoda cars in Germany fitted with the defeat device […]
VW emissions ‘fix’ VOLUNTARY in the UK. So why bother?
The Department for Transport has revealed that the ‘fix’ for the defeat device on UK models of VW, Audi. SEAT and Skoda will be voluntary, with no compulsory recall. In Germany, the government is enforcing the recall of cars from VW, Audi, SEAT and Skoda with the EA 189 engine fitted with defeat device software, but […]
VW Defeat Device: 400,000 UK Volkswagens need PHYSICAL modifications
Volkswagen’s UK boss, Paul Willis, was hauled in front of MPs in parliament yesterday and revealed 400,000 UK cars will need physical modifications. It was the turn of UK MPs to get their hands on the local VW boss – for the UK that’s Paul Willis, UK MD – to answer questions about the defeat device scandal […]