Diesel scandal has not spared Audi Bashny.Net

A subsidiary of VW has recognized, designed to deceive the environmental Agency have been used 2.1 million of its cars.

Reuters reports with reference to the statement Audi (XETRA: NSU): over 2.1 million cars worldwide have been equipped with software that allowed Volkswagen (XETRA: VOW3) to falsify the tests for purity of the exhaust. By words a press-the Secretary of the company, it's about 1.42 million vehicles in Western Europe, 577 thousand in Germany and almost 13 thousand in the United States. The standard EU5 engines were installed on cars of lines A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5.





We will remind, in September it became known that within seven years the company VW lied to the American tests for purity of the exhaust. Was determined that the vehicle is tested, reduced the content in the exhaust of harmful substances, and successfully passed the test. The deception was discovered during independent testing, conducted by the International Council on clean transportation (ICCT).

The U.S. government ordered Volkswagen to withdraw from the U.S. market 500 thousand cars. The company admitted that faulty software are supplied with the 11 million cars worldwide. The German automaker could face a fine of 18 billion dollars.

On Monday it became known that from his duties temporarily suspended a top Manager of Audi Ulrich Hackenberg, responsible for the technical development of the company, head of brand development Pkv VW's Heinz-Jakob Neusser and head of R&D Porsche, Wolfgang Hatz. published

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