EPA says VW cheating software is on more vehicles

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By TOM KRISHER and MICHAEL BIESECKER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal widened Friday after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the German automaker used software to cheat on pollution tests on more six-cylinder diesel vehicles than originally thought.

Volkswagen told the EPA and the California Air Resources Board the software is on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3-liter engines going back to the 2009 model year. Earlier this month the regulators accused VW of installing the so-called "defeat device" software on about 10,000 cars from the 2014 through 2016 model years, in violation of the Clean Air Act.

The regulators said in a statement they will investigate and take appropriate action on the software, which they claim allowed the six-cylinder diesels to emit fewer pollutants during tests than in real-world driving.

VW made the disclosure on Thursday, a day before it submitted plans to the EPA to fix a much larger problem — emissions-cheating software on 482,000 four-cylinder diesel cars.

FULL story at link.


FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2015, file photo, the logo of Volkswagen is displayed on a car during the Car Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal widened Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that clandestine software allowing six-cylinder Volkswagen diesel engines to cheat on pollution tests is on more models than originally thought. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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[FLPanhandle]

1. How big does this get before VW goes bankrupt?

The fines alone are getting massive and that's before the fixes and customer lawsuits.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I guess it depends oh how much their banker likes them

[pnwmom]

3. Why don't they get all their bad news out at once? It seems so much worse,

letting it all dribble out this way. How could they not have figured this out in the very beginning?

[Beakybird]

4. I bet they'll get bailed out by the German government

[chapdrum]

5. Yet another rogue corporation that is

too big to fail.
Instead of being dismantled after the Nazis lost WWII (Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned to develop
the Beetle by Hitler himself), it went on to become even bigger (as reported, it also owns Audi).

Good to know that we'll continue to be subjected to their profoundly lame TV ads, and the company can look forward to receiving a fine that will be paid by its insurer.

Case closed.