94000 cars in Portugal affected by Volkswagen scandal

In the United Kingdom, more than 500,000 Volkswagen-branded cars and 80,000 VW commercial vehicles in Britain contain the software.

Pon says the cars affected all have “Euro 5 diesel engines of the type EA189″. “We will compare them with the central register of vehicles and then set the exact number of the concerned vehicles”, Tok said.

Volkswagen and Skoda Auto technicians are working on a solution that could reside in adjustment of the problem software and of mechanical components. Other top executives were suspended from their functions, among them being Ulrich Hackenberg, the research and development chief of the Audi brand – as he was also the one leading technical development across the entire 12-brand group.

Owners will be informed that the emissions characteristics of their vehicles will be corrected “in the near future”.

SIVA said in a statement late Tuesday that 53,761 of them are VW cars and vans, 31,839 are Audis and the rest are Skodas.

Volkswagen has already reveal that 11 million vehicles from their group will be affected the emissions scandal and we now have the numbers for Audi.

Tok noted that these were cars sold by auto dealers in the Czech Republic, not all the vehicles used in the country. We also expect other Volkswagen group companies like Spais’s SEAT to follow in Skoda’s footsteps and announce that a few of their cars have been affected too.