Sentences with phrase «dieselgate emissions»

Following his resignation in the wake of the Dieselgate emissions scandal that has engulfed parent company Volkswagen, the project has since been taken under the wing of Audi's new R&D chief, Stefan Knirsch.

The Volkswagen Group is aiming to save $ 9 billion over the next decade, a decision it made after the dieselgate emissions scandal that hit its sales and image badly.

Made in America for Americans, the US - spec Volkswagen Passat was refreshed for the 2016 model year, but the Dieselgate emissions scandal has cancelled the Passat's unique selling point in the States, with 2.0 - liter TDI models barred from sale for the moment.

It follows the hugely publicised Dieselgate emissions scandal that has clearly hit VW's motorsport involvement hard.

Not exact matches

Things just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.

It's been built in anticipation of upcoming Real Driving Emissions requirements, which have been conceived to prevent situations like Volkswagen's «Dieselgate» scandal ever occuring again.

applied to all of its turbo petrol models last year in response to the «dieselgate» emissions scandal.

In the wake of dieselgate, Volkswagen is working hard on zero - emissions batter electric and plug - in hybrid versions of the Golf 8th generation.

The new engines may be a response to the «dieselgate» scandal, where software in VW models was found to be artificially lowering the NOx emissions in official tests.

CO2 emissions are rated at 153g / km, making it the cleanest vehicle on test [Ed: note that the V6 diesel engine in the Q7 is not affected by the Volkswagen Group's «Dieselgate» scandal].

Dieselgate is the coverall tag given the Volkswagen's multi-billion dollar crisis, which deliberately cheated on the NOx emissions of almost 11 million four - cylinder diesel cars between 2008 and 2015.

As its parent company Volkswagen Group continues to grapple with the fallout from its «Dieselgate» emissions crisis, Audi is focussing heavily on what it calls its «right - sizing» engine strategy for petrol - powered models, which derive higher performance and better fuel economy from advances in petrol engine technology.

The settlement applies to nearly a half million U.S. passenger vehicles equipped with «defeat devices» that enable «cheating» in emissions tests (for an overview of Dieselgate, click here).

This follows 2015's high - profile «Dieselgate» exposé in which the company was found to have cheated emissions testing by installing illegal defeat devices in in its EA189 diesel engines from 2009 to 2015.