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BMW denies manipulating or rigging emission tests

Xinhua, September 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

German car maker BMW on Thursday said it does not manipulate or rig any emission tests and abides by the law in every country.

The company made the remarks in response to a report by a German weekly Auto-Bild, according to which emissions from BMW's X3 xDrive 20d model exceeded the EU's Euro-6 diesel emissions level by 11 times during an official road test by the International Council on Clean Transportation.

BMW said its vehicles did not have functions to recognize the emissions cycles and that it followed all local testing requirements. Share prices of BMW fell sharply on the report of Auto-Bild, according to local press reports.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the software on VW diesel cars showed false emission data. The software installed by Volkswagen in its cars violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement last week.

According to the findings of EPA, the software called "defeat device" by the EPA can turn on full emission controls only when the car is undergoing emission tests to make the car meet the legal emission standards, but during normal driving, the car will emit nitrogen oxides at up to 40 times the standard.

"Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health," said Cynthia Giles, EPA's assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States by Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and Volkswagen Group of America since 2008. The models include Jetta, Beetle, Golf, Passat and Audi A3. Enditem