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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.

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 –...

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.

“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.

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

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 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.

“We expressly value his critical and constructive approach”. 23, 2015 he is stepping down.

Eikhout, the Greens’ environmental policy leader, said it had been “painful for the EU” to watch USA regulators seize the initiative on emissions test manipulation.

VW has admitted to installing software on Volkswagen and Audi cars with four-cylinder diesel engines that switches on pollution controls when they are being tested.

But it’s not just emission figures that are at fault.

Standard & Poor’s warned it may cut Volkswagen‘s credit rating over the pollution cheating scandal, as fellow rating agency Fitch did on Wednesday. “Clearly, when you look at his profile, he’s had a very Volkswagen-centric career”, says...

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.