VW Outlines Recall Plan

Guenther Scherelis, a spokesman for the commercial vehicles unit – which makes vans and pickups – on Tuesday confirmed that 1.8 million of its vehicles were affected.

Meanwhile, Volkswagen believes that the older vehicles will be able to comply with the emission standards after the software problem is solved.

VW has admitted that 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with the software.

He said customers will be informed in the coming days that their vehicles need work and authorities will be presented with “technical solutions” in October.

Lash Volkswagen of White Plains, N.Y., will accommodate affected Volkswagen owners by giving them loaner cars and picking up or dropping off their cars when it’s time for fix, said Tom Backer, general manager of the dealership in New York’s Westchester County.

The organisation’s director, Steve Gooding, commented: “Slowly but surely the true impact of this deceit is being revealed”.

The result has been a freeze on all new and a few used VW diesel-engine cars.

VW hasn’t said why it used the illegal “defeat device” to deceive regulators.

“There are many unanswered questions and we will get the facts and the answers that the American people deserve”.

“We all want clean air to breathe, but motorists will understandably be anxious about the MPG (miles per gallon) implications of these so-called corrections on the cars many will have bought on the strength of their fuel economy”.

The recall is one of the largest in history by a single manufacturer.

He added: “It would be wrong to penalise all diesels”. The software would fully engage the emissions control system during laboratory testing and reduce the effectiveness of the system when the vehicle was operating under normal driving conditions, spewing nitrogen oxide at levels far above federal limits in the US.

Prosecutors in Germany announced that their investigation of the scandal has not yet uncovered any evidence against former VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn.

A number of United Kingdom law firms claim they have been contacted by hundreds of motorists interested in a group action against VW.