Switzerland bans sales of outdated Volkswagen cars
Switzerland has temporarily banned the sales of Volkswagen cars with rigged emissions systems in the country.
A spokesman for the Swiss federal office of roadways, Thomas Rohrbach, said Friday the ban applied to all VW models as well as Seat, Skoda and other cars in the VW group that are fitted with diesel engines in the Euro 5 emissions category.
Rohrbach said the ban could potentially affect 180,000 vehicles that have 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0-litre diesel engines.
The ban does not apply to cars that are already in circulation or to cars which have Euro 6 engines and are not included in the emissions-rigging scandal.
Volkswagen has announced that 11 million vehicles worldwide are affected by the scandal.
This includes some five million cars made by its core VW brand.
The German company has yet to detail fully where in the world the five million Volkswagens were sold.
New boss
Scandal-hit Volkswagen has chosen Porsche chief Matthias Mueller as its new chief to steer it out of the vast damage caused over a pollution test rigging software installed in its diesel cars to fool emissions tests.
The 62-year-old Mueller replaces Martin Winterkorn, who resigned over the stunning revelations by US environmental authorities that the German carmaker had fitted some of its diesel cars with software capable of tricking environmental tests -- a scam that could lead to fines worth more than $18 billion (16.1 billion euros).
The so-called defeat devices covertly turn off pollution controls when the car is being driven and back on when tests are being conducted.
Mueller has vowed “to restore confidence in the Volkswagen Group -- through an unsparing investigation and maximum transparency, but also by drawing the right lessons from the current situation".
Volkswagen’s new chief said the company would adopt " tougher compliance rules" and promised to " overcome this crisis".
Mueller assured that the carmaker would "emerge stronger from the crisis in the long term" if it learned a lesson from its mistakes.
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