The German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has confirmed that Volkswagen’s emissions data manipulation software was present on cars sold in Europe.
The news follows VW’s admission earlier this week that up to 11 million vehicles around the world could be involved in the emissions rigging scandal, which is currently focused on cars fitted with the EA189 diesel engine.
To date, it has only been confirmed that VW and Audi cars were sold with the engine and cheat software fitted, although it is likely that further VW Group brands will be affected. To date, the only makers within the group to confirm their cars are unaffected are Bentley and Lamborghini.
So far, it has only been confirmed that 482,000 vehicles will be recalled, all in the USA where the scandal first broke after VW was caught cheating in NOx emissions tests. However, the geographic location of the additional 10.5m vehicles potentially fitted with the so called ‘defeat device’ has not been confirmed.
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