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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.

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”.

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.

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.

“All measured data suggests that this is not a Volkswagen-specific issue”, explained the worldwide Council for Clean Transportation (ICCT), the non-profit organization that tested the X3, in a statement, without providing more specific information.

The agency will begin road-testing vehicles instead of relying exclusively on laboratory assessments. Unlike past emissions test, the details of how the agency, along with Canada’s environmental agency, will test vehicles for emissions cheating would not be provided to auto...

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...