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Peak Australian motoring body angry at Volkswagen over emission cheating

Xinhua, October 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Australia's peak motoring body, the NRMA, called for tougher regulations on Thursday after Volkswagen revealed more than 90,000 cars in Australia were among the carmaker's global emission-cheating rort.

Volkswagen Australia admitted that 77,149 of its cars sold between 2008 and 2015 were programmed with software that beats pollution tests, while its subsidiary Audi Australia said 14,028 of its vehicles were also installed with the duping technology.

Both brands have launched websites for customers to enter the ID number (VIN) of their vehicle to see if their cars are affected.

The NRMA was angry at the carmaker's local response, as confirmation of Australia's market in the global scandal came more than two weeks after the news first broke.

"It shouldn't have taken this long for VW to communicate that into Australia and even now we don't have enough information about what the recall will involve," spokesperson Peter Khoury told the Australian Associated Press. Endi