Volkswagen sells unlicensed, test vehicles to customers. Now orders recall Volkswagen has become a name synonyms with scandals and has one more to add to its credit.
Sells 17,000 Pre-Production Cars not road worthy - now issues a recall.
VW sold thousands of unlicensed, test vehicles, to customers in Europe and the US have been driving cars which lacked proper permits from authorities. Quote:
Another scandal has emerged at VW. The carmaker, the world’s largest in 2017, has for years sold vehicles which lacked approval from motor transport authorities to go on the road. From 2006 to 2018, Volkswagen sold around 6,700 test cars in Europe and the US, a VW spokesman said, confirming German media reports. Around 4,000 were sold in Germany and the remainder in the rest of Europe or North America.
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The cars, made to test and showcase new models before the launch of large-scale series production, should officially have been scrapped, but instead VW sold them as new or second-hand cars. The problem: motor transport authorities never approved these test models, only the ones produced in series
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Though the number is small ( 17000) the new is bad as it is yet to recover from the diesel gate scandal. Quote:
While some of the affected models may only need a software update or a new navigation system to become compliant, others may be so different from production cars they should be sent directly to the scrapyard.
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Last edited by volkman10 : 13th December 2018 at 10:28.
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