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Porsche has decided to suspend the sale of vehicles with a diesel 3.0-liter engine in the US.This was done immediately after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the results of the investigation the engine V6 3.0 TDI, installed in Porsche cars, Audi vehicles and Volkswagen automobiles.The scandal emissions of the Volkswagen started because of 2.0-liter TDI. The German manufacturer with a special equipment brought down the level of emissions of nearly half a million cars from United States. During this scandal the head of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn has announced about his re...
According to Reuters, the newly elected Chairman of Volkswagen will be having his first board meeting on Wednesday. Hans Deiter Poetsch will barely have time to truly hold the reigns on the German Auto Giant and steer it into the course which will lift it from the abyss it finds itself in now.After Volkswagen admitted to cheating US Emissions Tests H.D. Poetsch will be appointed to lead the 20-person supervisory board which has been convened at the German headquarters in the city of Wolfsburg.Poetsch is now in charge of finding the culprits, fully show exactly how many affected vehicles ...
Because of the emissions scandal Volkswagen's U.S. sales are already drastically falling down. The consequences will also spread over the individual owner of diesel-powered VWs when trying to sell their vehicles on the used car market. Even though sales are otherwise on track to be extremely vigorous, but due to the VW dealerships' prohibition from selling 2-liter diesel engine vehicles, Volkswagen Group of America's sales are dropping continuously. Sales already fell with 5.2 percent in September and until the end of the month they will decrease at least 2 % more accordi...
As the scandal kept brewing for the past few days, it was a “public secret” that the CEO of VW, Martin Winterkorn was on a tight rope and would eventually have to take a fall. After the German Car-manufacturer giant admitted to having installed specific software on close to 11 million diesel vehicles in order to ”pass” emissions tests, a world-wide brouhaha brewed and exploded.Perhaps, in an effort to curtail the damage of this exploding news, Winterkorn was forced to make this decision and move forward with it. In a statement just released, Winterkorn states...
Volkswagen has apologised and ordered an external investigation to find the deception on US emissions tests to make its vehicles appear less polluting.Martin Winterkorn, chief executive of the German carmaker added: “I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public. We will co-operate fully with the responsible agencies, with transparency and urgency, to clearly, openly and completely establish all of the facts of this case.”The Environmental Protection Agency declared that many of Volswagen Passat, Beetle and Audi A3 sold in US market has ...
