Newly French-Bought Vauxhall Has Suddenly Escaped France's Emissions Investigators

Ongoing French emissions investigations into alleged 'manipulation' by Opel and Vauxhall have been closed, just a fortnight after the firms were purchased by part-French-government-owned PSA
Newly French-Bought Vauxhall Has Suddenly Escaped France's Emissions Investigators

Opel and Vauxhall have been cleared of illegal emissions fixing by French authorities just a couple of weeks after being bought by France’s biggest automotive manufacturing group, in possibly the world’s most absolutely-definitely-not-suspicious bit of timing.

The firms were being jointly investigated by the French government after reports emerged from Germany claiming that the Zafira’s emissions control system stopped working properly above 87mph, or at higher altitudes.

Newly French-Bought Vauxhall Has Suddenly Escaped France's Emissions Investigators

Opel has, apparently, admitted using emissions manipulation software, but has denied ‘cheating’ the system. In any case, they appear to have been told to forget about it now that it’s a French-owned company in which the French government itself has a 13.7 per cent stake. Hmmm.

French government investigators have now decided that there is no evidence of fraud on Opel or Vauxhall’s counts, and has put the matter to rest. To date, only the Volkswagen Group has been formally accused of cheating emissions tests in Europe.

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Comments

Anonymous

That smelly smell… Very suspicious

03/22/2017 - 10:09 |
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Anonymous

Wow, amazing for all the wrong reasons

03/22/2017 - 10:13 |
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Aaron Dawson

The french government ain’t gonna shoot himself in the foot! But they really should….

03/22/2017 - 10:20 |
1 | 1

Trust me, they do. A lot.

03/22/2017 - 12:28 |
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Bryan from Philly

Hmmmmm

03/22/2017 - 10:20 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

Hmmmm I wonder who could have been responsible for that.

03/22/2017 - 10:23 |
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Anonymous

What will happen to holden?

03/22/2017 - 11:25 |
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Daniel Busker

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

holden is owned by gm so its still with gm (vauxhall/opel was from gm but was sold) holden and opel have no connection except for that they were both owned by GM

03/29/2017 - 00:54 |
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Anonymous

This time its not their cheese that smells

03/22/2017 - 11:29 |
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The Silver Paseo EL54

They’d better make their cars more reliable and durable rather than investigating others’ emissions.

03/22/2017 - 11:52 |
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Anonymous

But the French government has also a stake in Renault (19.7%, so more than in PSA), and Renault is still pending for emissions cheating… So I don’t believe there is a link.

03/22/2017 - 12:32 |
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Anonymous

A photo of these French government investigators

03/22/2017 - 17:14 |
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Turbobandit

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

TerriblE, uncomfortablE

03/23/2017 - 14:03 |
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