More VWs involved in cheating scandal

On the road, the exhausts of those cars would exceed allowable levels of nitrogen oxide, a harmful pollutant.

Its sales in Western Europe, Volkswagen’s home market, declined 1.3%. As soon as the test was over, the engine reverted to normal mode whereby vehicle performed better and achieved better mileage, at the expense of emissions.

Horn touted a “goodwill” gesture of $1,000 that Volkswagen is offering to to drivers who were affected by its violations of USA emission standards in the apologetic ad, according to the report.

As well as taking evidence from Mr Willis last month, MPs also questioned Mike Hawes, chief executive of vehicle industry trade the SMMT, Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, and Department for Transport officials over whether they were capable of spotting VW’s deceit under the current arrangements and whether the auto industry was too close to regulators.

And so, we’d like to provide a little cheat sheet – a handful of bullet points to bring you up to speed on the crisis and how it might affect you. Sales halved in Brazil and dropped by a quarter in Russian Federation as local economic woes dominated.

Volkswagen sold 30,387 cars in the United States in October, 74 more vehicles than during October 2014. The company has been providing thousands of dollars in incentives to potential buyers to help keep USA sales alive.

Volkswagen said that it found out about the latest issue during its own ongoing investigations and made the information public, and it has also informed about the issue to the authorities, along with importers and trading partners. These include Volkswagen cars and Audi cars. As a result, USA sales of all Volkswagen brands rose six per cent during October to 52,400 vehicles. Diess’ comments also signal a possible light at the end of the tunnel for the automaker after nearly two months of a continuously expanding scandal that began with an admission to the EPA that diesel models contained software that could detect when the cars were being tested for emissions. A list of the individual brands’ affected models is attached.

Others, including members of the TDIClub.com owners’ forum, were more measured, with a few saying they’d take the cash even though they planned to avoid getting the fix Volkswagen is still working on for fear that it will degrade performance or fuel economy.

It was not immediately clear whether the 800,000 vehicles announced Tuesday with the newly discovered carbon dioxide emission problems were among those already affected.