Volkswagen Group

Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. I would never have expected a German company, especially one which is built on trust, to be involved in such a shameful scam. 

The first cases against Volkswagen in Turkey regarding an emissions-cheating scandal have been filed by an Istanbul-based law firm, although more complaints are expected to be filed in the coming weeks.

Turkey will revise its vehicle emissions testing methodology if it finds that emissions between idling and moving vehicles vary significantly, an environmental ministry official said Sept. 29.

The official's comments come after Volkswagen's admission it rigged diesel emissions tests in the United States.

German car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) will replace 11 million vehicles that are fitted with the ‘guilty’ software responsible for distorting emissions, according to a statement by the company’s new CEO Matthias Muller.

Shares of Volkswagen AG?s main Turkish distributor Do?u? Otomotiv tumbled more than 12 percent on Sept. 28, hit by concerns that the emissions cheating scandal at the German automaker could undermine sales of its local dealers.

Do?u? imports more than 14 brands including VW group marques Porsche, Skoda and Audi, as well as Volkswagen.

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.     

German authorities has given scandal-hit Volkswagen an October 7 deadline to set out a timeline for bringing all its diesel cars in line with national pollution guidelines, a newspaper said Sept. 27.

The revelations that German car manufacturer VW had purposely been misleading customers and authorities to believe their cars emitted less pollutants than they actually did rocked the world. But the ‘diesel dupe’, as the story has been dubbed could have another twist to it. A chapter of intrigue and industrial espionage.

Norway's economic crimes unit said on Sept.25 it had opened a fraud probe into German carmaker VW to see if cars sold in Norway had been equipped with pollution test cheating software.

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.