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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.

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.

Winterkorn has led VW since 2007 and managed the carmaker’s staggering worldwide growth.

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

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...

“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.