Volkswagen scandal: Bosch would have provided the “cheater” software – Le Figaro

According to the German newspaper Bild , the software was made available in 2007, without, however, expected to equip vehicles for sale.

This is the Bild newspaper in its Sunday edition that stated: the German supplier Bosch admitted to being the company that had provided him with Volkswagen software permits modification of engines to distort the emission tests. Citing an “explosive documents”, the daily explains that the material was made available to the manufacturer in 2007, but that would have reminded Bosch Volkswagen installation on the vehicle was “illegal”. The software, in fact, in the words contained in the document was “intended only for testing (internal) and not for driving.” A warning that does not ultimately prevent its fraudulent installation on at least 11 million of its vehicles worldwide, confessions same manufacturer. Contacted by Le Figaro , Bosch is sticking to silence: “Our business relationship with Volkswagen is confidential, we do not comment,” said the supplier had said Tuesday, in a statement, provide the German manufacturer “of common rail injection systems for diesel engines equipped models (…) based on Volkswagen’s specifications.”

Although Bosch is not formally criminalized in the Volkswagen scandal, this is the second big company whose image could be tarnished by the manipulations of the German manufacturer. The Spanish brand Seat, Volkswagen subsidiary, was pointed at and Saturday by the Spanish Industry Minister José Manuel Soria, which requires to be made public the number of vehicles equipped with an engine rigged. The member of the Iberian government also requires be reimbursed by the Spanish manufacturer subsidies to support for “efficient” vehicles. The Spanish daily El Pais reports that more than half a million vehicles would be affected.

France escapes this time the scandal … at least pending the “random testing” over a hundred cars that should start next week without that we know precisely the dates and terms of the device. The Minister especially appeals to the goodwill of manufacturers which it hopes to “open their laboratories and submit to random testing. This is the only way out of this crisis of confidence, “according to his statements to the Journal du Dimanche .