Audi

A convertible Audi that Princess Diana used to carpool with sons Prince William and Prince Harry is up for grabs , for around 70,000 dollars.

The U.S. Justice Department on Jan. 4 filed a civil lawsuit against Volkswagen AG  for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act by installing illegal devices to impair emission control systems in nearly 600,000 vehicles.

Sales of new Volkswagen cars in Britain slumped by almost 10 percent last month in the wake of the pollution cheating scandal, industry data showed Nov. 5.

Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles, U.S. environmental regulators said on Nov 2, in a new blow to the automaker already reeling from similar allegations regarding millions of smaller diesel engines. 

The owners of 5700 new cars of the Volkswagen and Audi brands in Bulgaria will have to have their cars refitted due to the presence of illegal emission-control software.

The scandal broke out on September 18, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Volkswagen had to refit nearly half a million cars equipped with illegal software to bypass diesel emissions tests.

Volkswagen?s top-of-the-range automaker Audi said on Sept. 28 that 2.1 million of its diesel cars worldwide are fitted with the sophisticated software enabling them to cheat emission tests.

In Germany alone, 577,000 vehicles were affected and 13,000 in the United States, an Audi spokesman said. In western Europe as a whole, the number was 1.42 million.     

Volkswagen has admitted using the same fake emissions test in Europe as it used to falsify results in the US, the German transport minister announced on Thursday.
Volkswagen is the second massive German multinational to fall into the US federal government’s sights, after Siemens.

VW’s shares have dropped by a third over the past few days after VW admitted to selling cars around the world that were equipped with software that cheats on emissions tests.

There are fears that the Volkswagen scandal could have affect not just VW, but the wider German and European car industry.

Two Bulgarian nationals have died in a car crash on the road Nis-Dimitrovgrad, southeastern Serbia.

Four people were injured in the accident, all of them Turkish nationals.

A six-year-old is among the injured, according to reports of the BGNES news agency.

Bulgaria's Customs officers have detained a total of 8 stolen luxury cars worth about EUR 1M in one month only, the Ministry of Interior reported.

The expensive vehicles were seized during auto theft inspections in Western Europe in the period July – August 2014.