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That didn't have long. Just 10 days after the starting time reports that VW had installed and then-called defeat-devices on more than half a million US cars (and 11 million vehicles worldwide), Audi and Škoda Machine have both admitted their own vehicles too utilise the same technology. Škoda is a Czech machine manufacturer that provided vehicles to the Eastern Bloc from 1945 to 1989 and became a wholly endemic subsidiary of VW in 2000.

Currently, an estimated 2.1 one thousand thousand Audis are estimated to be affected worldwide, including 577,000 in Western Deutschland and 13,000 in the US. Škoda has stated that i.2 million of its vehicles are also impacted, but has not given a breakup of models or countries. Affected Audis include the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5. VW'south stock price has admittedly tanked in the last 2 weeks, falling from $169.65 to the current price (as of this writing) of $99.30.

2010 Audi A3 TDI S-line turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4 diesel engine

An Audi A3 diesel engine.

The impairment likely isn't over. As we covered already, VW didn't just suspend executives from Audi and itself — it too suspended individuals affiliated with Porsche, the company's flagship brand. While Porsche doesn't sell many vehicles per year, its cars are considered some of the virtually reliable always built; the Cayman and Boxster fabricated Consumer Reports' 2014 brusk listing as the nearly reliable cars on the road.

Reports final week flagged the BMW X3 diesel fuel SUV every bit emitting more than 11x more than pollutants than Eu police allows for, though there'southward no evidence that BMW engaged in the aforementioned blazon of cheating as VW, and BMW has pushed back hard against the notion that it might exist adulterous on its tests. Exactly what that ways is subject to considerable contend, since at that place's evidence that BMW inflates its fuel economy by truly incredible amounts (once again, in the European marketplace). GM's Opel brand is also implicated in the test results.

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Audi's widening scroll.

Mercedes has recently stated that it volition keep promoting diesel vehicles in Japan, despite the increased scrutiny existence brought to bear upon these vehicles. Information technology intends to sell 10% diesel vehicles in Japan this year, up from final year's 5%. Mercedes claims to have never used defeat devices in whatever market place, and believes diesel vehicles offer an excellent overall value proposition. It's besides declared support for the new testing methods beingness developed by the EPA and its European counterparts.

As for VW, the bad news keeps coming. Germany has demanded that VW submit a bounden program to fix the estimated 11 million cleaved vehicles by October 7. If the visitor fails to practise and so, the German language regime will ban all two.8 meg afflicted cars from driving on its roads. Switzerland has apparently already banned afflicted cars from existence sold either new or used, equally has the United states of america. But banning all VWs from taking to the streets? That's an unprecedented action. Then again, if half the vehicles in the US were diesel, we might run across similar activity contemplated.