Car models drawn into the scandal emissions stopped now in Switzerland.
But if the same models in Sweden is still unclear.
– As soon as we have that information we will go out with it, said Marcus Thomas People, CIO at Volkswagen in Sweden.
Just over a week ago it was revealed that millions Volkswagen cars are equipped with software that displays a manipulated results in the emission tests. Cheating has been going on for seven years and involves several models of the German carmaker’s cars emit between 30 and 50 per cent more emissions than has been announced. The news quickly got big consequences.
The share plummeted and the German carmaker’s chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, resigned after two days. On Friday appointed Matthias Müller to his successor – and promised to restore confidence in the Automotive Group.
On Saturday, the state-media, including The Guardian and The Telegraph, that Switzerland stop the sales of Volkswagen cars equipped with the engineered software .
Several brands are involved
Thomas Rohrbach, a spokesman for the Swiss equivalent of the Swedish Transport Agency, according to The Telegraph that the sales suspension affects the cars with the so-called Euro 5 engine. Although models of Skoda, Seat and Audi subject.
Selling stop had the cars not yet sold or registered. They must also be equipped with the faulty software installed in some vehicles of the so-called Euro 5 model. It is unclear how many cars involved. In Switzerland there are 180,000 vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2014 and are equipped with a Euro 5 engine, but these have thus already been sold and are not affected by the shutdown.
Notification of Sweden delayed
Where or how many cars with the engineered software sold in Sweden is still unclear. Volkswagen has been unable to give an answer to that question.
– As soon as we have that information we will go out with it, said Marcus Thomas People, CIO at Volkswagen in Sweden.
Why delay the announcement?
– It’s not that there is a single engine sold in one country, but it varies between models and production series. We really regret this whole issue but it is a chore to take out all the detail and it is extremely important that we have the right information when we go out with it, said Thomas People and emphasizes that the affected vehicles will be fixed free of charge.
The engine in newly Volkswagen cars are Euro 6 model and do not contain the engineered software, says Marcus Thomas People.
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