Now Volkswagen make their CO2 emissions problem disappear too

Volkswagen make their CO2 emissions problem disappear

Volkswagen has announced that internal testing of Co2 emissions on their UK and European range have been concluded, and there really isn’t a problem.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Volkswagen announced that they’d come up with a fix for the scammed NOx emissions on VW Group cars in the UK and Europe, and that it amounted to just a quick software update plus a but of plastic mesh to modify air flow. Total cost about 12p.

We did question how the VW emissions fix can be so simply done (and if it’s so simple why did VW ever employ a defeat device?) but if the fix is accepted by EU regulators then VW escape very lightly, at least in terms of the cost of putting their cars right.

And now it looks like VW has pulled another rabbit out of the hat with the news that the CO2 emissions on 800,000 of their cars in Europe, which VW announced last month were wrongly stated, actually aren’t. Well, not the vast majority anyway, according to VW’s internal tests.

In fact, just 36,000 cars have been found by VW to have wrongly stated emissions – just 4.5 per cent of the original number – and even then VW say the errors are so small they’re insignificant and won’t need any modifications.

As a result, VW are now sticking back in their coffers the €2 billion they’d set aside to deal with it.

So that’s it. NOx emissions solved for 12p and a software flash, and CO2 problems disappearing in to thin air. Genius.

Or is it?