* Berlin - German minister: VW fudged tests in light trucks
-- Manipulation of emissions testing also took place on Volkswagen AG's light trucks, besides cars, German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt said Friday... The German transport ministry this week launched a special investigation into Volkswagen's emissions scandal that has erased almost one-third of the company's market value. The affair, which prompted the resignation of Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn earlier this week, was triggered by last week's disclosure by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that Europe's biggest auto maker employed software on some VW and Audi diesel-powered cars to manipulate the results of routine emissions tests... Mr. Dobrindt's ministry is working with Volkswagen to determine which vehicles were affected. On Thursday, he said spot tests were also being conducted on cars made by other brands, German and foreign... Volkswagen said earlier this week that the software was installed on as many as 11 million cars world-wide and Mr. Dobrindt said on Thursday that cars in Europe were also affected...
(Photo: VW's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany) -- Berlin, Germany - MarketWatch (USA), by Ruth Bender and Friedrich Geiger - Sept 25, 2015
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