Audi Confesses Emissions Cheat
October 13, 2015
The German giant admits cheating in Germany and U.S., and major model lines being implicated in the scam
Volkswagen has been a great name in the luxurious and durable vehicles and its top-of-the-range division, Audi, has recently admitted that they have fitted more than 2.1million of their diesel engine cars with a sophisticated software to cheat the emissions tests.Number of vehicles affected
The numbers that have been made public are about 1.42 million in Western Europe, almost 13,000 in the United States and 577,000 in Germany alone. According to an Audi spokesman, A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5 are all affected model lines, fitted with so-called EU5 engines.Do these devices stay on all the time?
Audi has admitted that almost 11 million of its diesel cars were rigged with those devices, aimed to defeat the emissions tests. But Audi has also stated that these so-called defeat would only stay on during the tests, this way, activating the pollution controls, but later on when the cars are on road, Audi covertly turned them off. A global outrage has been sparked after VW’s confession and they are facing charges of committing fraud through the sale of cars with manipulated emissions data.What caused all this mess?
Winterkorn is the man accused for all this mess, he has been the CEO of Volkswagen since 2007 but when the world’s top-selling automaker admitted rigging its diesel engines to pass U.S. emissions test during his tenure. He resigned days after that confession. He also added that whatever he did during his time was absolutely in the interests of the company and he is not aware of any sort of wrongdoing on his part. Since the law in Germany does not permit to bring charges against a company, but against individuals, thus he has to face these charges.Is the VW only company cheating?
No, they are not the only one cheating, other companies are doing the same stuff, but only VW is cheating it big time. The analysis also found that some of the new EU cars from famous automakers like the BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot also lie about their fuel economy. Their vehicles use around 50 per cent more fuel. Almost a decade ago, the VW was warned about the software being illegal, but still they continued to use it for cheating.Categories
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