Police Raid Volkswagen's Headquarters in Germany France Italy
Europe's Largest auto maker
( Michael Horn President CEO VW America response to emission scandle)
"We Totally Screwed Up"
" VW was dishonest" and have "broken the trust of our customers and the public"
( Michael Horn President CEO VW America response to emission scandle)
"We Totally Screwed Up"
" VW was dishonest" and have "broken the trust of our customers and the public"
Volkswagen Emission Scandal
The Frightening Numbers
German prosecutors and police raid Volkswagen's office in Wolfsburg plus a number of private homes(private apartments) on Thursday Oct.8/2015.
Three prosecutors and 50 police officers from the city of Brunswick carried out a massive search that included private residences as well as the automakers own building.
French police carried out search warrants on VW headquarters on October 16/2015,the main office Villers-Cotterets in northern France as well as another office near Paris,seizing documents and computer hardware material as part of an "aggravated deception" investigation.Police in Italy also raided Volkswagen's offices.
Investigations by European and US authorities as well as class action law suits from aggrieved customers after admitting that it fitted 11 million vehicles worldwide with so called "Defeat Devices" to the engines software to cheat emission tests.
The popular models like the 2014-015 Volkswagen Passat 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 VW Jetta 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 VWGolf 2.0L TDI and 2009-2015 VW 2.0L TDI Beetle,2009-2016 Touareg 3.0L V6 TDI, along with cousin cars like the 2009-2015 Audi A3 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 Audi Q7 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A6 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A7 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A8 A8L 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2015 Audi Q5 3.0L V6 TDI 2013-2016 Porsche Cayenne Diesel 3.0L V6 -to cheat on emission test using their "Defeat Device"
When these cars software detected that they were being put through a standard nitrogen oxide emissions test,the defeat device or devices switch into low-emission mode that registered a correct emission test.Then,once the test was over,the cars reverted to pumping 40 times as many pollutants as the law had allowed,while appearing to stay under the legal limit.
Volkswagen lies is the sheer scale of deception,by widely understating the emission of its diesel fleet,Volkswagen spit in the face of regulators falsely advertised to millions of customers all over the world.
Automotive emission experts could compare this cheat device as the worst display of corporate malfeasance since the Lehman Brothers.
In May 2014 the Volkswagen emission-Test scandal exploded after a research team at the West Virginia University lab and the International Council on Clean Transportation found discrepancies in the actual emission levels of VW cars compared to their stated levels,California and federal authorities ordered Volkswagen to fix the problem.The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) begins an investigation into VW the back and fourth between the two last over a year,as VW argues that the third party test were flawed. VW also had claimed it had fixed it.Then,after the EPA investigated again and discovered the company had not corrected any diesel emission pollutants.The EPA threaten to hold back approval for Volkswagen's new line of diesel cars.
September 3rd 2015 VW finally admits that it used sophisticated software to trick regulators,the cars were fitted with "Defeat Devices" which had been carefully hidden in the software code that faked carbon NOx(nitrogen oxide) emission test,Its software monitors steering,engine use and barometric pressure to determine whether the vehicle is being tested for emissions.
The World Health Organization in 2012 declared emission from diesel engines to be carcinogenic.
The US justice department is suing Volkswagen Group up to 46 Billion over the Dieselgate scandle.
The Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest Nitrogen Oxide emission pollutants producing 40 times the law has allowed.
Outdoor air pollution containing NOx (Nitrogen Oxide) emission can irritate the lungs and because they help form damaging particulate pollution smog and could even lead to lung cancer.Higher smog levels have been linked to respiratory illnesses,increase asthma attacks,and even premature deaths(especially among the sick and elderly) contribute to more than 3 million premature deaths annually.
This rigging of emission test has effected the Health of innocent humans by admitting million tonnes of air pollution by VW annually.
Still no fix for over 11 million vehicles polluting the world damaging smog and climate change.
What VW Group Diesels you can't purchase
Volkswagen,Audi, and Porsche dealers can't sell any new or pre-owned diesels are under stop sale orders.Volkswagen's list of banned diesels and other 2016 diesels scheduled to debut,such as 2016 Passat TDI,have not even entered dealer inventory and may not for months.
2013-2016 Volkswagen Touareg TDI
2013-2015 Audi Q7 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A6 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A7 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A8 and A8L TDI
2014-2015 Audi Q5 TDI
2014-2016 Porsche Cayenne Diesel
2015 Volkswagen Jetta TDI
2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI
2015 Audi A3 TDI
2015 Volkswagen Beetle TDI
2015 Volkswagen Passat TDI
This is Volkswagen list of Banned Diesels
The correct list should include all Volkswagen vehicles from 1970-2016
This is Not the first time VW got caught,in 1973 Volkswagen used pollution "Defeat Devices" on over 25,000 vehicles equipped with devices that overrode the cars emissions control systems.Volkswagen settled with EPA and the US justice department in 1974 agreeing to pay $120,000 in penalties,or $644,000 in today's dollars.Four decades later Volkswagen sorry they got caught again with pollution "Defeat Devices"
String Of Recalls for VW Group due to various glitches
Volkswagen Porsche recalling over 800,000 SUV's over pedal issue
800,000 Touareg and Cayenne SUVs worldwide has been recalled because of the pedal system.
VW said on Thursday March 24/16 that its recalling 391,000 Touaregs and over 309,000 Cayenne SUVs from 2011-2016.
The internal inspection detected a problem with "possible loosening of a retainer ring on the bearing block of the pedal system"
March 28/16 VW recalled nearly 5,600 electric 2015-2016 e-Golf cars in the US to address a Battery problem that can cause electric engine to stall.The company said "oversensitive diagnostics" in the high-voltage battery management system may inadvertently classify an electric surge as a critical battery condition."This can cause an a emergency shutdown of the high voltage battery which in turn deactivates the vehicle's electrical drive motor" stalling the engine and potentially leading to a crash.
VW recalled 177,000 Passat sedans across the world in March/16 due to potential electrical fault.
Volkswagen recalls 91,000 Passat sedans in US on April 1/16 to fix insufficient cable insulation that could cause short circuits.the cars effected assembled between 2012-2014.
Volkswagen has to meet deadline April 21/16 set by US Judge overseeing hundreds of civil suits against the carmaker to produce its plan for modifying 580,000 US vehicles to bringing their emissions back within legal limits.
Florida's Lemon Laws basically require carmakers to buy back defective vehicles after repeated attempts to repair them.This should set precedent for others to follow.
Germany's Volkswagen Group currently owns 12 subsidiaries including Volkswagen passenger cars,Audi,Seat and Skoda,luxury brands such as Bentley,Bugatti,Lamborghini,Porsche,Ducati and commercial vehicles Scania,Mann.
How does the Volkswagen Group become the largest car maker in Europe?
Clear and convincing proof is evident in executives and managers willfully mislead officials,lying,cheating and deception.This represents a grave violation of the worlds values and principles.
The evidence proven in criminal prosecution:that no other logical explanation can be derived from the facts except that VW committed the crime,therefor overcoming the presumption that a person (company)is innocent until proven guilty.
The VW Group has proven Criminal Negligence(Guilty Mind) beyond any reasonable doubt and will be sentenced to the Maximum the law will allow.
The Volkswagen Group are intellectual barbarians,despicable con artist,filthy acts like a Criminal Cartel involved in evil,illegal and immoral actions
"Crime Against Humanity"
The image the VW has painted is a veritable car crash for the Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Brand's earnings Tumble 86% over cheating emissions test 5/31/16
Operating profits at VW dropped to 73 million euros ($81 million) from 514 million euros.
How many other illegal acts is the Volkswagen Group involved in?
The TRUTH is POWERFUL
& always will PREVAIL over the forces of EVIL
The Frightening Numbers
German prosecutors and police raid Volkswagen's office in Wolfsburg plus a number of private homes(private apartments) on Thursday Oct.8/2015.
Three prosecutors and 50 police officers from the city of Brunswick carried out a massive search that included private residences as well as the automakers own building.
French police carried out search warrants on VW headquarters on October 16/2015,the main office Villers-Cotterets in northern France as well as another office near Paris,seizing documents and computer hardware material as part of an "aggravated deception" investigation.Police in Italy also raided Volkswagen's offices.
Investigations by European and US authorities as well as class action law suits from aggrieved customers after admitting that it fitted 11 million vehicles worldwide with so called "Defeat Devices" to the engines software to cheat emission tests.
The popular models like the 2014-015 Volkswagen Passat 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 VW Jetta 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 VWGolf 2.0L TDI and 2009-2015 VW 2.0L TDI Beetle,2009-2016 Touareg 3.0L V6 TDI, along with cousin cars like the 2009-2015 Audi A3 2.0L TDI,2009-2015 Audi Q7 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A6 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A7 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2016 Audi A8 A8L 3.0L V6 TDI,2014-2015 Audi Q5 3.0L V6 TDI 2013-2016 Porsche Cayenne Diesel 3.0L V6 -to cheat on emission test using their "Defeat Device"
When these cars software detected that they were being put through a standard nitrogen oxide emissions test,the defeat device or devices switch into low-emission mode that registered a correct emission test.Then,once the test was over,the cars reverted to pumping 40 times as many pollutants as the law had allowed,while appearing to stay under the legal limit.
Volkswagen lies is the sheer scale of deception,by widely understating the emission of its diesel fleet,Volkswagen spit in the face of regulators falsely advertised to millions of customers all over the world.
Automotive emission experts could compare this cheat device as the worst display of corporate malfeasance since the Lehman Brothers.
In May 2014 the Volkswagen emission-Test scandal exploded after a research team at the West Virginia University lab and the International Council on Clean Transportation found discrepancies in the actual emission levels of VW cars compared to their stated levels,California and federal authorities ordered Volkswagen to fix the problem.The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) begins an investigation into VW the back and fourth between the two last over a year,as VW argues that the third party test were flawed. VW also had claimed it had fixed it.Then,after the EPA investigated again and discovered the company had not corrected any diesel emission pollutants.The EPA threaten to hold back approval for Volkswagen's new line of diesel cars.
September 3rd 2015 VW finally admits that it used sophisticated software to trick regulators,the cars were fitted with "Defeat Devices" which had been carefully hidden in the software code that faked carbon NOx(nitrogen oxide) emission test,Its software monitors steering,engine use and barometric pressure to determine whether the vehicle is being tested for emissions.
The World Health Organization in 2012 declared emission from diesel engines to be carcinogenic.
The US justice department is suing Volkswagen Group up to 46 Billion over the Dieselgate scandle.
The Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest Nitrogen Oxide emission pollutants producing 40 times the law has allowed.
Outdoor air pollution containing NOx (Nitrogen Oxide) emission can irritate the lungs and because they help form damaging particulate pollution smog and could even lead to lung cancer.Higher smog levels have been linked to respiratory illnesses,increase asthma attacks,and even premature deaths(especially among the sick and elderly) contribute to more than 3 million premature deaths annually.
This rigging of emission test has effected the Health of innocent humans by admitting million tonnes of air pollution by VW annually.
Still no fix for over 11 million vehicles polluting the world damaging smog and climate change.
What VW Group Diesels you can't purchase
Volkswagen,Audi, and Porsche dealers can't sell any new or pre-owned diesels are under stop sale orders.Volkswagen's list of banned diesels and other 2016 diesels scheduled to debut,such as 2016 Passat TDI,have not even entered dealer inventory and may not for months.
2013-2016 Volkswagen Touareg TDI
2013-2015 Audi Q7 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A6 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A7 TDI
2014-2016 Audi A8 and A8L TDI
2014-2015 Audi Q5 TDI
2014-2016 Porsche Cayenne Diesel
2015 Volkswagen Jetta TDI
2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI
2015 Audi A3 TDI
2015 Volkswagen Beetle TDI
2015 Volkswagen Passat TDI
This is Volkswagen list of Banned Diesels
The correct list should include all Volkswagen vehicles from 1970-2016
This is Not the first time VW got caught,in 1973 Volkswagen used pollution "Defeat Devices" on over 25,000 vehicles equipped with devices that overrode the cars emissions control systems.Volkswagen settled with EPA and the US justice department in 1974 agreeing to pay $120,000 in penalties,or $644,000 in today's dollars.Four decades later Volkswagen sorry they got caught again with pollution "Defeat Devices"
String Of Recalls for VW Group due to various glitches
Volkswagen Porsche recalling over 800,000 SUV's over pedal issue
800,000 Touareg and Cayenne SUVs worldwide has been recalled because of the pedal system.
VW said on Thursday March 24/16 that its recalling 391,000 Touaregs and over 309,000 Cayenne SUVs from 2011-2016.
The internal inspection detected a problem with "possible loosening of a retainer ring on the bearing block of the pedal system"
March 28/16 VW recalled nearly 5,600 electric 2015-2016 e-Golf cars in the US to address a Battery problem that can cause electric engine to stall.The company said "oversensitive diagnostics" in the high-voltage battery management system may inadvertently classify an electric surge as a critical battery condition."This can cause an a emergency shutdown of the high voltage battery which in turn deactivates the vehicle's electrical drive motor" stalling the engine and potentially leading to a crash.
VW recalled 177,000 Passat sedans across the world in March/16 due to potential electrical fault.
Volkswagen recalls 91,000 Passat sedans in US on April 1/16 to fix insufficient cable insulation that could cause short circuits.the cars effected assembled between 2012-2014.
Volkswagen has to meet deadline April 21/16 set by US Judge overseeing hundreds of civil suits against the carmaker to produce its plan for modifying 580,000 US vehicles to bringing their emissions back within legal limits.
Florida's Lemon Laws basically require carmakers to buy back defective vehicles after repeated attempts to repair them.This should set precedent for others to follow.
Germany's Volkswagen Group currently owns 12 subsidiaries including Volkswagen passenger cars,Audi,Seat and Skoda,luxury brands such as Bentley,Bugatti,Lamborghini,Porsche,Ducati and commercial vehicles Scania,Mann.
How does the Volkswagen Group become the largest car maker in Europe?
Clear and convincing proof is evident in executives and managers willfully mislead officials,lying,cheating and deception.This represents a grave violation of the worlds values and principles.
The evidence proven in criminal prosecution:that no other logical explanation can be derived from the facts except that VW committed the crime,therefor overcoming the presumption that a person (company)is innocent until proven guilty.
The VW Group has proven Criminal Negligence(Guilty Mind) beyond any reasonable doubt and will be sentenced to the Maximum the law will allow.
The Volkswagen Group are intellectual barbarians,despicable con artist,filthy acts like a Criminal Cartel involved in evil,illegal and immoral actions
"Crime Against Humanity"
The image the VW has painted is a veritable car crash for the Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Brand's earnings Tumble 86% over cheating emissions test 5/31/16
Operating profits at VW dropped to 73 million euros ($81 million) from 514 million euros.
How many other illegal acts is the Volkswagen Group involved in?
The TRUTH is POWERFUL
& always will PREVAIL over the forces of EVIL
Lying about it's "Really Clean Diesel"
commercial ad before Volkswagen Group got caught
