luxury carmaker Audi on Friday found itself being pulled deeper into a global emissions cheating scandal that has engulfed its parent company Volkswagen after German prosecutors said they were investigating whether some of Audi’s top-end models might have been tampered with in Germany.
Prosecutors have already been investigating possible diesel emissions cheating by Audi in the United States.
But they announced Friday that they were extending their probe to the carmaker’s home country, a day after Audi announced a Europe-wide recall of its A7 and A8 models.
“We have broadened our probe into sales of Audi vehicles... To 24,000 vehicles sold in Germany and Europe with illegal defeat devices,” a spokesman for prosecutors in Munich, southern Germany, told AFP.