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“We have been informed that also in Europe, vehicles with 1.6 and 2.0 litre diesel engines are affected by the manipulations that are being talked about”.

The German luxury vehicle maker has denied any wrongdoing after claims that its BMW X3 diesel comfortably exceeds European emissions standards under real-world conditions.

Martin Winterkorn resigned from the position earlier this week in the wake of the giant emissions scandal that has left the company in a precarious financial position.

Regulators and prosecutors in several countries are investigating the fake emissions tests.

VW also faces a battle to restore the confidence of customers and motor dealers who have expressed frustration at a lack of information from the company about how they will be affected by the scandal. It will also have to fix software it has said is in some 11 million cars...

The Environmental Protection Agency said 482,000 of the German car-maker’s 2009-15 models in the U.S. were fitted with the defeat device to switch engines to a cleaner mode when they are undergoing official emissions testing.

German authorities have given the VW Group just more than a week to prove that all its cars meet emissions regulations, amid reports in the national press that the company was warned as long ago as 2007 that using the software that cheated testing processes on production cars...

On Wednesday, VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigned, saying he was “stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible in the Volkswagen group”.

In denying wrongdoing, BMW said two ICCT studies confirmed the BMW X5 and 13 other company vehicles tested, comply with the legal requirements concerning NOx emissions.

The United States environmental regulator says that it will test all diesel auto models for pollution “defeat devices” in the wake of the scandal over Volkswagen’s vehicles.

A report in the latest edition of AutoBild magazine says that during real world testing an all-wheel drive BMW X3 equipped with a turbo-diesel engine had emissions that were 11 times over the European limit. “No specific details of the test have yet been provided and...

It doesn’t apply to cars now in production with “euro 6” engines, which aren’t affected by the emissions scandal.

Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would begin on-road emissions testing of new and used vehicles.

The Jetta and Passat exhibited NOx emissions between five and 35 times beyond the prescribed limit in the US. The model is manufactured exclusively in Spartanburg County. In fact, the car’s respiratory-harming NOx emissions exceeded future Euro 6 emissions levels –...

In April of 2015, Volkswagen of America, Inc. sent letters to California owners of diesel-powered Audis and Volkswagens informing them of an “emissions service action” affecting the vehicles.