VW halts European van deliveries amid diesel emissions 'uncertainties'
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BERLIN — Volkswagen said on Friday it had stopped delivering the T6 Multivan to dealers after detecting that the diesel model emitted excessive nitrogen oxide levels. VW said it had reported the findings to the KBA, Germany's automotive watchdog agency.
Earlier on Friday, German magazine Der Spiegel, without identifying the source of its information, reported that VW tests had shown that the T6's toxic nitrogen oxide emissions in part significantly exceeded legal limits, and that VW had set an emissions-related so-called "adjustment factor" too low when seeking KBA approval for the model.
"VW Commercial Vehicles is looking into signs that certain technical data ... cannot be fully confirmed" by reviews of the T6 model's actual and planned emission levels, a spokesman for VW's van division said.
The spokesman ruled out the possibility that the engine management software was the cause of the "uncertainties," and said VW had agreed with the KBA to run further tests.