Audi to recall 127,000 vehicles

Germany’s automotive watchdog has detected illicit emission-control software in Audi’s latest Euro-6 diesel models and has ordered a recall of 127,000 vehicles, Bild am Sonntag has reported. Audi, a Volkswagen unit, said in a statement that "the engine control software for the vehicles in question will be completely revised, tested and submitted to the KBA for approval." In November, Audi announced a recall of 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix after discovering they emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas that parent Volkswagen concealed from U.S. regulators in its 2015 “dieselgate” scandal. Several Audi models were also affected and Audi has been accused in media reports of having devised the so-called defeat devices years earlier but not to have installed them in its vehicles at that time.