Wednesday, February 17, 2016

VW automotive sales in Deutschland fall eight.8 % in Jan



Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) railcar sales fell eight.8 % in Deutschland in Jan, official registration information showed, whereas overall automotive sales in Europe's largest market rose three.3 % from a year earlier.

German railcar registrations in Jan rose to 218,365 vehicles, statistics from Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority KBA showed.

Volkswagen, that has been rocked by AN emissions cheating scandal, saw sales of its rider cars fall to forty seven,147.

Opel, that recently launched a brand new version of its Astra, that may be a rival to VW's Golf, saw its German automotive sales jump twenty two % to sixteen,549 and registrations of Ford vehicles rose nineteen.2 % to fourteen,945, the KBA information showed.

Separately, Volkswagen same on weekday it had started modifying engines in Europe that were equipped with emissions cheating devices.

In December, the Volkswagen cluster conferred specific technical measures to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) to rectify its EA189 engines, VW said.

VW updated the computer code of engines with a capability of two.0 litres in Jan and can extend the update to engines with one.2 and 1.6-litre capacities, the corporate same.

The vehicles square measure technically safe and road and might still be driven on the roads, VW said.

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