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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.

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.

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.

If the EPA had not been there to catch VW lying, who would have?

The head of German luxury sports vehicle maker Porsche, Matthias Mueller, has been picked to succeed Martin Winterkorn as the chief executive of scandal-battered auto giant Volkswagen, the business daily Handelsblatt reported on September 24. Matthias Mueller, the 62-yead-old...

“As part of this work they will re-run laboratory tests where necessary and compare them against real world driving emissions“.

“Volkswagen needs to terminate the employment of everyone who approved – either explicitly or tacitly – the fraud”, said Cindy Schipani, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

For the executive, the switch was a symbol of his commitment to reversing years of underperformance in the world’s most competitive auto market.

“The artificial gaming of emissions tests threatens to become the auto industry’s Libor moment”, he told the newspaper.

The Environmental Protection Agency told automakers on Friday that it will begin road tests of all new vehicle models and vehicles already on the road to examine emissions claims following the exposure of Volkswagen’s regulation-cheating scandal.

Last week it came to light that Volkswagen has admitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it used software in 482,000 of its diesel cars sold in the U.S.to trick emissions tests.

“It’s clear it’s going to be very expensive”, said Christian Stadler at Warwick Business School.