VW's Audi says 2.1 million cars fitted with emission-cheating software

Volkswagen's top-of-the-range automaker Audi said on Monday (28 September) that 2.1 million of its diesel cars worldwide are fitted with the sophisticated software enabling them to cheat emission tests.

In Germany alone, 577,000 vehicles were affected and 13,000 in the United States, an Audi spokesman said.

In Western Europe as a whole, the number was 1.42 million.

The models concerned were the A1, A3, A4, A6, Q3, Q5 and also the TT, the spokesman said.