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Switzerland Suspends Sales of VW Models
The Local ^ | 26 Sep 2015

Posted on 09/26/2015 6:36:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Swiss authorities said on Friday they had temporarily banned the sale of new Volkswagen brand diesel-engine models potentially equipped with software capable of tricking environmental tests.

Some 180,000 vehicles made by Volkswagen's Audi, Seat, Skoda and VW brands between 2009 and 2014 could be affected by the scandal, the Federal Roads Office said in a statement.

Models equipped with diesel engines of the type 1,2TDI, 1,6TDI and 2.0TDI may be fitted with software capable of tricking environmental tests, the government agency said.

It stressed that only cars designed to meet Eur05 emission standards were affected and not the Eur06 engines.

The announcement came after Volkswagen appointed Porsche chief Matthias Mueller on Friday to steer it out of the widening scandal over pollution test rigging.

The scale of VW's deception became clear when the German company admitted that 11 million of its diesel cars are equipped with so-called defeat devices that covertly turn off pollution controls when the car is being driven and back on when tests are being conducted.

The Swiss Federal Roads Office said it had created a taskforce to investigate which types of vehicles sold in Switzerland are in fact equipped with the software.

The taskforce has been in contact with importers of potentially affected cars, foreign registration offices, including in Germany as well as other Swiss authorities at both the federal and regional leve, the statement said.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: cars; switzerland; vw

1 posted on 09/26/2015 6:36:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Didn't realize I could buy a model.


2 posted on 09/26/2015 6:39:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Cool car...

Wait - what were we talking about again?


3 posted on 09/26/2015 6:41:05 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Leg room?


4 posted on 09/26/2015 6:43:47 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: nickcarraway

Read on Drudge that Silky Pony is filing a class action suit against VW.


5 posted on 09/26/2015 6:55:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: nickcarraway

In the end, the cars are going to have to be crushed, to meet the Climate Paranoia Religious Standards.

And the owners will be left SOL.


6 posted on 09/26/2015 7:00:29 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: 2banana

what car?


7 posted on 09/26/2015 7:08:20 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: nickcarraway
This has Obama's fingerprints all over it.

I wonder what VW did to piss him off?

8 posted on 09/26/2015 7:25:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Didn't a VW plant in KY vote against going union last year? Maybe this is The Lightbringer's Revenge.......


9 posted on 09/26/2015 9:05:10 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Swiss don’t really care, they just don’t like being tricked.


10 posted on 09/26/2015 9:33:00 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Rebelbase

He’s got mouths to feed.


11 posted on 09/26/2015 9:36:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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