• UK inquiry into emissions tests
    • 17/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    MPs are calling for an investigation into the way the UK approves the road worthiness of cars. This follows on from the Volkswagen emissions scandal in which some diesel cars had software fitted designed to cheat emissions tests. Parliament's Transport Committee said it would look into whether arrangements for [...]
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  • VW recall to start in January
    • 07/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Volkswagen expects to start a recall of cars affected by the emissions scandal in January, according to newly appointed chief executive, Matthias Mueller. All affected cars will be fixed by the end of 2016, he told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and added that only a few employees have been [...]
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  • ‘Diesel cars killing people’
    • 01/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Former science minister Lord Drayson has said that Tony Blairs labour government made a mistake in promoting diesel cars as they are now ‘killing people’. Back in 2001, the then Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced lower vehicle tax for diesel cars, on the grounds that they were less polluting and this tax break [...]
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  • Official MPG figures overstated by 37%
    • 30/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Manufacturers’ quoted fuel emissions figures overstate real-world miles-per-gallon performance by an average of more than 37%, according to data collected by Professional Driver magazine. Professional Driver, the highly respected business magazine for the private hire and chauffeur industry, has road tested 75 [...]
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  • Seat involved in diesel scandal
    • 30/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Seat is the latest VW brand to reveal it is involved in the diesel duping scandal that has rocked the automotive world. Seat sit under the Volkswagen umbrella along with Audi, Skoda and Seat and all have admitted to installing software that allows diesel vehicles to give false emissions readings during [...]
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  • VW saga continues
    • 29/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Following yesterday’s revelation that bosch warned Volkswagen back in 2007 about using ‘diesel duping’ software, German prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, as two other car manufacturers names are added to the controversy. Audi and Skoda, who both fall [...]
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  • VW diesel crisis deepens
    • 28/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Following last week’s news that Volkswagen admitted tampering with diesel emission ratings in the US, and possibly worldwide, new leaked documents show that Bosch, warned VW in 2007 over the legality of ‘defeat devices’. The German engineering firm, is said to have explained in a memo to VW that use of the [...]
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  • SMMT statement on emissions testing
    • 23/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has released a statement following an admission by the world's biggest carmaker, Volkswagen, that it deceived US regulators in exhaust emissions tests. ‘The UK automotive industry understands the concerns consumers may have following the actions of one [...]
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  • VW and Audi face credibility question
    • 22/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Volkswagen and Audi could be facing a major credibility crisis in the UK market after the revelation that the company deliberately 'fixed' emissions software fitted to some of its vehicles in the US, say Glass's. The scandal means that models including the Audi A3, Volkswagen Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat were all [...]
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