Sentences with phrase «volkswagen diesel vehicles»

Nearly 1.2 million Volkswagen diesel vehicles are affected in the UK, which constitutes as more than one in 10 vehicles on UK roads.

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After the car companies met with the government at the start of this month, the CEOs of Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW conceded responsibility for the diesel scandal and promised to pay for software upgrades to reduce emissions from affected vehicles.

Another supply chain upset resulted when Volkswagen admitted software was installed to allow 580,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. to emit excess emissions.

New vehicles from the Volkswagen Group with EU 6 diesel engines currently available in the European Union comply with legal requirements and environmental standards.

Further internal investigations conducted to date have established that the relevant engine management software is also installed in other Volkswagen Group vehicles with diesel engines.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

Volkswagen admitted in late 2015 that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with software that could cheat emissions tests.

-- That secret software in Volkswagen's 3.0 - liter diesels can turn off the vehicles» emissions controls, Reuters reports, citing the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

A Volkswagen senior manager has been sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison for concealing software that was used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.

Eligible owners have a 2009 - 15 diesel four - cylinder Volkswagen or Audi vehicle.

Volkswagen and Audi are not extending the offer to owners with the automaker's 3.0 - liter V - 6 diesel vehicles, Audi spokesman Brad Stertz said.

This is all part of the EPA's initiative to impose additional emissions test to catch software like the «defeat devices» installed in 11 million Volkswagen four - cylinder diesel vehicles worldwide.

But perhaps even more problematic, Volkswagen went on record claiming that the emissions scandal affected both diesel vehicles also gas - powered models.

Volkswagen Group's so - called «defeat - device» emissions software has allowed hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles from the 2009 - 16 model years to emit nitrogen oxide at illegal levels while thwarting emissions tests.

Volkswagen will likely use the concept car's debut at CES to reveal its future plans for electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles as it seeks to distance itself from the specter of its diesel emissions scandal.

Based on a driving cycle of three years or 45,000 miles (72,419 km), the report finds diesels less expensive overall than their gasoline counterparts in vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado, Volkswagen Jetta and Mercedes M - Class.

Volkswagen will introduce the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen concept at the 2014 New York auto show, and it's got all of the magic words — diesel, all - wheel - drive, wagon, optional manual gearbox — that we look for in a fun, functional, and efficient vehicle.

(Repeats for additional subscribers) By Paul Lienert and Joseph White DETROIT, Sept 29 (Reuters)- Volkswagen AG's promise to fix pollution control systems on about 11 million diesel vehicles will involve changes to software, and possibly hardware, that could leave owners with cars that deliver diminished fuel economy and performance or require more maintenance, experts said Tuesday.

«We are working under the assumption that we will no longer offer diesel vehicles in the United States,» Volkswagen Passenger Cars chief Herbert Diess told Handelsblatt.

After Friday's accusations from the EPA concerning Volkswagen's alleged violation of emissions regulations, Volkswagen has now issued a nationwide stop - sale for affected new 2015 and 2016 diesel models equipped with the 2.0 - liter TDI engine, as well as all certified pre-owned vehicles with the diesel four - cylinder.

Initially, the German government only tested diesel vehicles for defeat devices after Volkswagen Group admitted to manipulating emissions tests using engine management software.

(Adds Volkswagen comment, background, paragraphs 2 - 10) By Ayesha Rascoe Sept 30 (Reuters)- A Texas county sued Volkswagen AG in state court on Wednesday, accusing the German carmaker of violating state environmental laws by installing software on some of its diesel vehicles to circumvent emissions tests.

Luxury car brand Audi, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, still sees a diesel vehicle as possible, its Americas president said last week.

WOLFSBURG, Germany / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Volkswagen will no longer offer diesel vehicles in the United States, its global brand chief said on Tuesday, ending speculation the company might return to the technology after its emissions scandal fades from memory.

Volkswagen reached a $ 14.7 billion settlement with 475,000 U.S. owners of diesel vehicles and federal and California regulators in October after admitting to installing secret software in its diesel cars to cheat emissions tests.

The Generation 3 vehicle models covered by the approved emissions remedy are the model year 2015 diesel Volkswagen Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Golf, Golf SportWagen, Jetta, and Passat, and the model year 2015 diesel Audi A3.

These cars join the 482,000 Volkswagen and Audi vehicles equipped with 2.0 - liter diesel four - cylinder engines that were called out for violations by the EPA in September.

ARB issued to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America an In Use Compliance Letter addressing concerns over test results for 2014, 2015, and 2016 vehicles with 3.0 L diesel engines, alleging that these model years included defeat devices...

A year in a diesel SUV is going to be something of a change of pace for me, the Discovery Sport replacing a Volkswagen Golf R on my driveway, but with the world seemingly going crazy for this type of vehicle, I'm more than happy to be jumping on the bandwagon.

Volkswagen will take a step back from the diesel powertrains that defined its U.S. vehicle lineup for the better part of a decade amid a repositioning of the brand in the aftermath of the company's emissions scandal, VW's top U.S. official says.

Volkswagen will give its dealers first rights to acquire hundreds of thousands of repaired diesel vehicles returned through their stores under recalls stemming from the company's diesel emissions...

Like many of the vehicles on this list, the Jetta is a highly popular Volkswagen model, and the diesel engine option helps to show why.

Now, a stock 2012 Volkswagen Passat SE TDI Clean Diesel vehicle equipped with a six - speed manual transmission has broken the previous record by covering 1626.1 miles achieved on one tank of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel under real world driving conditions.

This bulletin applies to all Volkswagen vehicles equipped with TDI diesel engines.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) rejected as «incomplete» Volkswagen's proposal for fixing diesel vehicles equipped with software that cheated on U.S. clean air...

Aside from bringing back the Microbus name, this vehicle also moves Volkswagen a giant step away from diesel engines.

In light of its massive diesel scandal, Volkswagen is pushing its efforts towards electrifying vehicles.

It is in the light of this development that Mercedes - Benz, Audi and Volkswagen will be systematically expanding their ranges of diesel vehicles.

Will we actually see any of these vehicles on the road or will they just be sitting on dealer lots because of the evilness that diesel currently has due to the Volkswagen mess?

DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler will use a transmission created by Nissan Motor Co. and a diesel engine supplied by Volkswagen AG in a new Dodge car as part of efforts to cut the time and cost of vehicle development.

There are car geeks, and then there are Volkswagen geeks: Hardcore fans of the German brand that not only obsess over their vehicles» quirky, European qualities — like diesel...

On the other hand, a clean diesel powered Volkswagen Jetta produces about 6.4 tons per year, or about 45 percent more carbon - based emissions than the gasoline hybrid vehicle.

That's enough to push the coupe from naught to 62 mph in only four seconds and label it as the fastest six - cylinder diesel vehicle ever developed within the Volkswagen Group.

Needless to say, the RS5 TDI is the fastest six - cylinder diesel vehicle ever developed within the Volkswagen Group.

Reuters reports that Audi, Mercedes - Benz, Opel, Porsche, and Volkswagen have agreed to recall 630,000 diesel vehicles to tweak engine management software.

Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller told a German publication that it would launch a recall for diesel vehicles that have emission - cheating software starting in January and hopefully finish up fixing all of the vehicles by the end of the year.

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].

The announcement underscores Volkswagen Group of America's continued success with diesel technology: Year - to - date the Volkswagen Group of America has sold more than 47,000 clean diesel vehicles, including more than 10,000 in the month of July alone.

Volkswagen's new Roadmap E underlines a seismic shift that is happening to the auto industry which is rapidly evolving to keep pace with a worldwide erosion of the equity that petrol and diesel powered vehicles have enjoyed for over a hundred years now.

The Volkswagen XL1 was born out of the company's desire to build an ultra-efficient vehicle to be able to travel 100 km on only one liter of diesel fuel or around 240 U.S. mpg.