Q.Volkswagen India issues voluntary recall for all diesel cars

Do you think this perhaps a lobbying powered move?

While others were laughing at the woes of Volkswagen, the Delhi Government seems to have turned the tables around. The VW group can still sell its diesel cars, as most of their mass market ones in India are below 2,000 cc (Vento, Polo, Rapid, Jetta, Octavia, Yeti, etc). But companies such as Mahindra, Tata, Toyota and others who have vehicles with diesel engines larger than 2 litres are in trouble. Their sales will take a hit.

It would be interesting to wait and watch the implications of this scandal on the used car market in India, esp at the luxury end of it.

I just can't get the number of VW memes that this emissions scandal brought about out of my head. I found a compilation of these memes in CarThrottle. Here, take a look: [url]https://www.carthrottle.com/post/11-hilarious-reactions-to-the-vw-emissions-scandal/[/url]

Volkswagen India has issued a voluntary recall for all diesel cars that come with the EA 189 family of engines. These cars have been globally effected by the emissions scandal in the VW group. Tests first conducted in the US found VW group cars to be cheating on emissions - these cars had software that could detect when they were being tested for emissions and comply during the test, but would later revert to a setting that offered more power, while compromising emissions. This has led to global bad press for the VW group, forcing the company to issue quick fixes and recalls and about 80 billion dollars in fines. [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1457[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#000000]In India,[/COLOR] the affected cars include the earlier 1.2 litre diesel Polo, 1.6 litre Vento and Polo, and the 1.5 litre TDI Polo and Vento, as well as the 2 litre diesel engine family of cars, such as the VW Jetta. It also affects all the diesel cars from Skoda including the Fabia, Rapid, Octavia, Skoda and Superb. Even Audis have to be recalled including the A3, A4, Q3, Q5 and A6. Totally, 3,23,700 cars of the Volkswagen Group will be recalled in India - covering nearly 22 models from the group! This includes all cars made since 2008 in India covering 198,500 VW cars, 88,700 Skoda cars and 36,500 Audis. VW India says all that these cars need is a software update to fix the emissions issue. The company says that this won't affect the handling or safety of the cars in any way, but will only fix the emissions issue for which it has been pulled up globally. Customers can get these done for free at a VW service centre. VW will be informing customers about this recall directly as well.