All variants off market: Volkswagen stops sale of Polo in India, cites technical considerations

Volkswagen India produced 20,030 contraptions of Polo between April and August this year.
German auto fundamental Volkswagen on Wednesday asked its purchasers in India to briefly cease selling its top class hatchback Polo, citing a technical challenge. The company, besides the fact that children, talked about the measure is not concerning the emissions scandal that has hit the enterprise in the US and in Europe. both the petrol as well as the diesel variations of the hatchback has been taken off the marketplace for now.

A spokesperson at Volkswagen Passenger vehicles India, mentioned, “Volkswagen India has demonstrated a short lived cling on deliveries of its carline Polo because of a technical purpose which is at present under contrast.” The technical difficulty and the ongoing evaluation subject a restrained number of vehicles out of a particular production period.

The spokesperson clarified that the assessment underway in India isn't regarding the emissions controversy the business is at the moment facing in the united states. He said, “Volkswagen would want to make clear that the temporary cling on deliveries isn't involving the ongoing EA 189 diesel engine subject matter.”

prior in the day, in a letter, signed with the aid of Ashish Gupta, head of after income operations, Volkswagen Passenger automobiles and Pankaj Sharma, head of sales operations, despatched to the ‘broking partners’, the enterprise asked them “not to bodily deliver any Polo car (all variations) with instant impact until extra notice from VW.”

VW India produced 20,030 instruments of Polo between April and August this yr. The company sold 13,827 gadgets within the domestic market and exported a further 6,052 units. in the 12 months to march end 2015, the enterprise bought forty five,000 devices in India, almost two-thirds of which were Polo.

previous this week, the business had mentioned that it is still evaluating the influence of the emissions scandal on Indian operations, and a recollect of automobiles will depend on findings of the continuing investigations.

The business is in communique with testing company automobile analysis affiliation of India (ARAI), which has been asked by the government to probe if Volkswagen manipulated emissions tests in India as it did in the US and Europe.

ARAI has asked Volkswagen India to latest the particulars of the entire automobiles offered in India with the EA189 engine and the enterprise is in verbal exchange with them on the remember.
The EA189 diesel engines had been geared up with utility that enabled manipulation of emissions tests. VW has already introduced that globally round 11 million cars were affected. The enterprise faces high-quality of over $18 billion within the US over the problem.