VW Italian dealers told to stop selling diesel cars with emissions-cheat software

TORINO -- Volkswagen's Italian dealers are requested to avoid selling Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat diesel automobiles built with engine applications implicated in the discharges diesel cheating scandal.
Volkswagen's totally owned Italian subsidiary company sent sellers a letter on Friday requesting them to cease sales of diesel versions equipped with VW Group's Euro 5 E A 189 motor.
The prohibition, which likewise changes VW commercial vehicles, is a "precautionary measure" forward of Volkswagen issuing more precisely just which versions are changed, in accordance with an inner communicating from VW Italy to sellers got by Automotive News Europe.
Between 2,500 and 3,000 VW Group automobiles in Italy are changed, press reviews stated.
VW Italy's letter warned sellers the communicating limited to internal usage. It said automobiles equipped with Volkswagen's new-era Euro 6 diesel engines can stay on sale since they're completely compliant with all relevant legal and environmental requirements.
Sales quit widens
Sales of VW group versions with E A 189 engines are being discontinued across Europe.
Some 128,802 VW team automobiles registered in Switzerland are influenced by a Swiss authorities sales prohibition, Volkswagen's Swiss provider AMAG said. AMAG said in a statement on Monday that a strategy to retro fit the afflicted automobiles will be shown to Swiss transportation authorities in October.
In Denmark, as many as 91,000 automobiles on Danish streets could be influenced by the diesel exploitation scandal, a spokeswoman from Volkswagen in Kobenhavn said.
"We never have received chassis figures however, so we are able to neither research the automobile nor con-Tact clients however, but we're working on this," Sos Ilum from VW Denmark advised Reuters. She added the cars wouldn't be remembered, but that clients will soon be offered practical or software upgrades.
In Volkswagen's home market of Germany, where 2.8 million of the 1 1 million impacted diesel automobiles are on the street, the the federal government transportation bureau, the KBA, has established an Oct. 7 deadline for the corporation to present a strategy to bring diesel discharges into line with the legislation, Bild newspaper noted.
In Belgium, Volkswagen's provider, D'Ieteren Car, stated it h-AS discontinued sales of vehicles possibly fitted using the noncompliant applications. The choice changes 3,200 vehicles in-stock for the Belgian marketplace, D'Ieteren stated.
Volkswagen said there had been no directions from company headquarters in Germany to sellers to avoid selling the affected automobiles, but revenue models in individual states had the right to consider such choices by themselves.
Volkswagen has stated that irregularities on diesel-emissions readings expand to 1 1 million vehicles worldwide with Kind EA 189 engines. Most of the automobiles were marketed in Europe although reviews have stated that the manipulated applications might not happen to be activated in most of the vehicles.
Reuters contributed to the report

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