Volkswagen recall a million United Kingdom cars

WASHINGTON, September 29 (Xinhua) – USA lawmakers on Tuesday requested documents from Volkswagen and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding the company’s illegal software used to circumvent emissions test for certain models of diesel engine passenger vehicles.

The company confirmed that almost 1.2 million United Kingdom vehicles are affected, consisting of 508,276 Volkswagen cars, 393,450 Audis, 131,569 Skodas, 79,838 VW commercial vehicles and 76,773 Seats.

The vehicles contain engines which may be fitted with software that was used to con emissions testers in the US.

But on the road the cars actually produced nitrogen oxide pollutants at up to 40 times the legal standard.

Audi has previously said the 2.1 million of its cars were affected by the diesel scandal, including the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5. The company hopes to ready its “technical solutions” and share them with “responsible authorities” before the end of October, so if you find out that your auto needs to be retuned, you might not have to wait too long to get it sorted.

“Volkswagen has admitted rigging diesel emissions tests for 500,000 cars in the USA, and has been accused of similar practices in Europe“.

Volkswagen has prepared a plan of action to refit the vehicles affected by deceptive software.

To begin with, the Group will inform the customers whose cars are affected and will refit them to correct the emission characteristics that were manipulated earlier.

VW said last week that 11 million cars within the group could be affected.

This engine was built into VW cars and commercial vehicles, as well as Audi, Seat and Skoda models, from around 2009 to this year. It added that it was “committed to supporting its customers and its retailers through the coming weeks”.

Newly-appointed CEO Matthias Müller, who replaced disgraced former Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn as the head of Volkswagen, stated that a project team has put together “a comprehensive action plan” over the weekend. The firm reiterates at all cars are technically safe and roadworthy.