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Chancellor says crisis won’t hurt Germany
- 05/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not think that the Volkswagen emission scandal will hurt Germany's image in the long-term. The chancellor admitted that the emission fraud committed by the car manufacturer was ‘dramatic’, but said that the industry in Germany overall will be affected. ‘It is, [...] -
More VM’s involved in DieselGate?
- 05/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Four major vehicle manufacturers have been drawn into the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal after Government-funded research revealed that their engines are emitting toxic fumes at up to seven times the legal limit. The Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University tested hundreds of new diesel cars on UK [...] -
Consumers won’t incur extra diesel tax
- 02/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The government has announced today, 2 October 2015, that UK taxpayers will not incur higher Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) if their existing vehicles are found to be fitted with illegal software that manipulates emissions tests. Following VW’s admission of using ‘defeat devices’ in diesel cars, there is an ongoing [...] -
VW takes 4,000 cars off UK market
- 02/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volkswagen is suspending the sale of 4,000 vehicles in the UK as a result of the diesel emissions scandal. The German carmaker said the move will involve vehicles across the VW group including the VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands. VW said it was a temporary measure and that it intended to return the vehicles for [...] -
Negative sentiment surrounding VW soars
- 01/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Following Volkswagen's admission that nearly 11 million of its cars are fitted with the software that dupes diesel emissions testing, there has been a considerable rise in the negative sentiment expressed towards the company via social media. Roughly 122K tweets were analysed surrounding the VW revelations. On [...] -
VW say 1.2m UK vehicles affected
- 30/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volkswagen has announced how many of its vehicles sold in the UK are affected by the software behind the emissions scandal. VW have quoted a figure of 1,189,906, including cars with the VW brand, Audi, Seat, Skoda and VW vans. In the next few days the company will give the vehicle identification numbers to [...] -
VW values ‘marginally affected’ by emissions
- 30/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Trade values of Volkswagen used cars have so far only been marginally affected by the news of last week's emissions scandal, according to figures from Glass's. These are the key findings from data released today covering more than 78,000 observations: Trade values of all Volkswagen used cars in the Glass's [...] -
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 [...] -
‘Carmakers are cheating customers’
- 29/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Motorists are being duped by carmakers into buying vehicles which claim to be more fuel efficient than they really are, a new report claims. Transport & Environment said Europe's carmakers routinely abused tests on fuel performance and CO2 emissions. The lobby group found an average 40% gap between the fuel [...] -
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 [...]