Germany’s Volkswagen Group on Tuesday announced its decision to recall 3,23,700 vehicles encompassing cars from the Volkswagen, Audi and SKODA model range equipped with a software which helps cheat emission tests.
Announcing a “voluntary recall for updating all cars with EA189 engines in the Indian market”, the company said the recall will cover cars sold from 2008 till November 2015 in India. “As per the records of Volkswagen Group India, from 2008 till end of November 2015, approximately 1,98,500 cars from Volkswagen, 88,700 cars from SKODA and 36,500 cars from Audi across various models sold in India have been equipped with the EA 189 diesel engines,” Volkswagen India said in a statement.
The recall decision comes after the Automotive Research Association of India found that diesel cars manufactured by Volkswagen in India were fitted with the “defeat device”.