This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Ban the sales of new VW group vehicles fitted with emissions cheating software.
From 2009 Volkswagen group has miss-sold around 11Million Diesel cars globally (1.2Million in UK). These cars use computers built for cheating emissions tests. They've been found to produce up to 40times the NOx output on the road and include Audi, Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda and VW Commercial vehicles.
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Switzerland has already banned the sale of these engines which include 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0 TDi engines produced from 2009 to 2016.
UK cars that are effected;
Volkswagen -508,276
Audi -393,450
SEAT -76,773
Skoda -131,569
VW commercial vehicles -79,838
VW group has announced this cheat system could be in production until 2016.
This petition is in place to ban further sales of VW-groups Emission cheating diesel engines, And for them to offer customers already effected some sort of large compensation.
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