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.
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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That smelly smell… Very suspicious
Oooooh that smell!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4j7ggZqbiU
Wow, amazing for all the wrong reasons
The french government ain’t gonna shoot himself in the foot! But they really should….
Trust me, they do. A lot.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmm I wonder who could have been responsible for that.
What will happen to holden?
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
This time its not their cheese that smells
They’d better make their cars more reliable and durable rather than investigating others’ emissions.
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.
A photo of these French government investigators
TerriblE, uncomfortablE