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A woman walks by a Volkswagen dealer in Milan, Italy, Sunday, September 27, 2015.

No fewer than 129,000 Volkswagen vehicles registered in Switzerland were affected by the emissions testing scandal, the company’s Swiss distributor, AMAG said.

The software at the center of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the US was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S. Chris Grundler, director of the Office...

The testing would be in addition to the standard emissions test cycles already in place, the EPA said.

Labelling the manipulation of data as “unacceptable” and “illegal”, Alexander Dobrindt said vehicles with 1.2 litre engines may also have been involved in the fraud.

VW was found to have installed software on several of its diesel vehicles which would deliberately lower the vehicle’s pollutant output when it detected an emissions test being performed. Being that the European Union has stricter emissions regulations than the USA and...

The software in the cars’ engine-control computers checked the speed, steering wheel position, air pressure and other factors to determine when dynamometer tests were under way.

The heads of the research and development teams for VW, Audi and Porsche have been temporarily kicked out of the company until the final details of the controversy have been cleaned up. But experts say it’s likely to cost much more as VW tries to comply with USA clean air...

The EPA sent letters to automakers on Friday to warn them that it will take new steps to prevent emissions test cheating.

It was beginning to make headway, at last.

MILAN/LONDON Sept 25 (Reuters) – European shares were higher on Friday, rebounding after testing 2015 lows in the previous session, as concern over the global economy eased and a sell-off of auto stocks began to slow.

Those events are what is causing massive turmoil with Volkswagen, the disclosure that 11 million diesel vehicles have software embedded in them that allow them to beat emissions certification tests.

“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 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday that it would introduce major changes to its diesel tests to avoid a repeat of Volkswagen’s cheating by installing a software that allows the vehicle to pass lab tests but spews emissions when driven.

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...