Volkswagen is to pay £193 million to settle ‘Dieselgate’ claims in the UK, drawing a line under the seven-year-old scandal. It’s almost seven years since the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal first reared its head as the world discovered VW had been fitting ‘Defeat Devices‘ to its cars to cover excess NOx emissions, since when VW has […]
Dieselgate: VW cheat device FIX “Replaced one cheat device with another” say lawyers: UPDATED
Lawyers suing Volkswagen over the Dieselgate emissions fixing scandal in the UK claim the ‘fix’ VW delivered is in fact another ‘cheat’ device. Update: VW has been in touch to ask that we include a statement from them on this story, which you can find at the bottom of the page. It’s five years since […]
Volkswagen £880 MILLION Dieselgate fine in Germany ENDS criminal proceedings
Volkswagen has been fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over its manipulation of emissions in the dieselgate scandal, ending criminal liabilities in Europe. The dieselgate scandal rumbles on for Volkswagen, with the latest hit on the firm a fine of €1 billion (£880 million) by German prosecutors. But, it seems likely, VW will be […]
Volkswagen STORING 300,000 diesel cars in U.S. bought back after Dieselgate
Volkswagen has spent around £5 billion to buy back some 350,000 diesel-engined cars in the U.S. after the Dieselgate scandal. And it’s storing them all in 37 secure facilities around the country. Volkswagen may have abandoned its ‘Clean Diesel’ mantra after the Dieselgate scandal revealed they’d been busy scamming emission tests around the world. And […]
Volkswagen Touareg recalled over NEW illicit emissions Defeat Devices
The Volkswagen Touareg with the Euro 6 3.0 litre diesel engine is being recalled after German authorities found new emissions defeat devices fitted. It’s more than two years since the VW Defeat Device scandal broke, and nearly put VW under. Despite owning up to millions of cars with illegal software to manipulate emissions during testing, […]
Volkswagen ‘DieselGate’ fix in Europe is just a Goodwill Gesture, say VW
Volkswagen are maintaining that the defeat device fitted to cars in Europe was legal, and that the dieselgate fix is just a gesture of goodwill. And NOx is harmless. It’s over a year since the Volkswagen Defeat Device scandal broke, and in that time perhaps the most astonishing part is Volkswagen’s vastly different stance on […]
VW Dieselgate Defeat Device fix does NOT work, say Italian consumer group
Italian consumer group Altroconsumo has tested an Audi Q5 which has had the Defeat Device fix, and its NOx emissions are 25% greater than before. There’s plenty of arguments still going on around the Dieselgate defeat device scandal perpetrated by Volkswagen, with much of the current debate around the different treatment of US owners of […]
VW, SEAT & Skoda UK sales DOWN by 20% in wake of Dieselgate
Sales of new cars from the Volkswagen Group fell by 20 per cent in October – despite overall sales rising – as VW feels the dieselgate backlash. With all the shenanigans around VW Group and its brands’ (SEAT, Skoda and Audi) diesel-engined cars, it should be no surprise that sales have been affected. But what […]
VW Emissions ‘Fix’ – can it REALLY be so simple, or are we still being SCAMMED?
Volkswagen last week revealed the ‘fix’ for its rigged emissions in the UK and Europe, comprising a simple software update and a bit of mesh. Can it really be so simple? Just a few days ago, Volkswagen revealed its fix for the more than 8 million cars in the UK and Europe whose engines are […]
VW Emissions Recall: Volkswagen tell us how they’re going to ‘Fix’ your emissions
Volkswagen has released details of how they’re going to fix the scammed emissions on VW, Audi, SEAT and Skoda cars with the EA 189 diesel engine in the UK and Europe. It’s taken them a while, but Volkswagen has now come up with a ‘fix’ for the defeat device emissions scam – the so-called dieselgate […]