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We can read now that Mercedes is copying VW's new strategy.
They announced to no longer send the new Diesel models to USA from now.
GFIs1
PS: VW does have still 2 customer classes owning a Diesel:
1st the one in USA that can give back the car and gets golden refunds
and
2nd the European and rest of the World customer that gets
The European Union began legal action on Thursday against Germany, Britain and five other member states for failing to police emissions test cheating by carmakers after the Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) diesel scandal.
Amid mounting frustration in Brussels over what EU officials see as governments colluding with the powerful car industry, the European Commission is wielding its biggest available stick in an attempt to force nations to clamp down on diesel cars spewing health-harming nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution.
German officials - who say EU law is poorly framed - had expected Brussels to stop short of confronting the EU's leading power and by far its biggest car manufacturer, at a time when the unity of the bloc is being challenged by eurosceptics and Britain's vote to leave.
Thursday's action is a sign that the EU executive, under pressure from the European Parliament, is keen to prove its worth to voters.
Germany, Britain, Spain and Luxembourg stand accused of failing to impose the kind of penalties Volkswagen has faced in the United States over its use of illegal "defeat device" software to mask real-world NOx emissions blamed for respiratory illnesses and early deaths.
Reacting to the announcement, German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said: "Germany is the only European country to have implemented a comprehensive list of measures to prevent unauthorised use of defeat devices."
Britain enacted legislation to tackle emissions test manipulations in 2009, a spokesman for its transport ministry said. "The UK will be responding in the strongest possible terms (to the EU action)," he added.
Officials from Spain and Luxembourg could not be reached for comment.
The Commission also accuses Berlin and London of refusing to share the details of suspicious findings revealed by national investigations into the "dieselgate" scandal - without which it cannot carry out a supervisory role.
"This goes far beyond Volkswagen," said an EU source, adding that officials had more cases planned in a push to force cars spewing up to five times legal NOx limits off the road.
Thursday's notice is the first step in what is known as infringement procedures, allowing the EU to ensure the bloc's 28 nations abide by agreed EU-wide regulations. Member states have two months to respond.
If they fail to do so convincingly, the EU may take them to the EU court in Luxembourg.
The article points out that it is not yet known why he was even in the US in the first place, with an outstanding warrant against him. I had wondered that, too. It strikes me as extremely dumb that he would take that chance, when he would have been safe (or relatively safe) if he had stayed in Europe.
Also, VW is apparently going to plead guilty and pay a huge fine to settle the case in the US, but the deal doesn't cover any individual employees, who will have to look out for themselves.
As we can read from different sources - this VW manager who was in USA for holiday reasons - faces a 169 years sentence.
And he wanted to leave the country paying a lumpy little commission
Some news bring out the scandal of modern trucks operating in Eastern Europe on international
transport. According to information (coming out tonight on ZDF - German TV) from german sources
many truck companies operating in east European countries have software to put off "adblue" cleaning
while driving.
This results in 2 things:
1) less costs on adblue adding
2) paying less taxes for every truck as it operates in a "better" category.
Both were not detected by the western Europe countries where those foreign trucks were driving through as
those are crossing many countries as foreign trucks with foreign plates.
Everything is to find under the label "adblue killer"
Today the German Police has started early this morning a razzia at the headquarter
of VW daughter AUDI. This is about the diesel scandal to arrest papers of the motor
manipulations with Audi in the past.
Prosecutors are from Munich.
Affected offices are in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.
edit 9:42
Some private apartments / houses of managers of Audi are also part of the razzia.
source: bild.de, n-tv.de and others
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