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BMW’s stock sank 5 percent Thursday after the German magazine Autobild reported that the company’s X3 xDrive polluted at more than 11 times the European standards, which are looser than USA rules.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Volkswagen’s board on Friday named Matthias Mueller, the head of the group’s Porsche unit, to be the new CEO and to lead the world’s top-selling automaker past a growing emissions-rigging scandal.

The manufacturer has said that it could affect up to 11 million cars.

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...