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There are 2.1 million cars in the Audi brand on which you installed the software that indicted decreased the level of emissions. This was communicated by a spokesman of the Ingolstadt subsidiary of Volkswagen. Of these, 1.42 million are in circulation in Europe and these 577mila in Germany all have an EA 189 engine 2.0 TDI 150 hp. The models involved include the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q5 and Q3. Probably, the spokesman said, the cars involved will be back to the parent to resolve the problem.

VW last week announced that 11 million vehicles are affected by the scandal discovered in the United States.

The story meanwhile continues to cause changes at the top in the parent company after the resignation of the number one Martin Winterkorn, on which today the judges of Lower Saxony have launched an investigation. Volkswagen was in fact suspended the heads of research and development (R & amp; D) of Audi, Porsche and its parent, as writes Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. In recent days, it was found that the emissions testing in the US, then manipulated election results, were managed directly by engineers employed in Germany.

On Thursday, EU ministers will discuss the competitiveness of the Volkswagen and the measures to take governments to make full disclosure on the impact of the scandal of rigged units and provide a first quantitative assessment of the size of the scandal in the EU. Tomorrow the Commissioner industry Elzieta Bienkowska meet in Brussels the new president of Volkswagen Hans Dieter Potsch.

The German government presses on the Wolfsburg. By 7 October, it announced the Ministry of Transport, the company will undertake the measures to solve the problem of the anti-smog rigged. The KBA, the German Federal Institute of Motor Vehicles, asked VW “to submit binding measures and an agenda that prospects technical solutions regarding the technologies that cars have implemented.”

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