BERLIN (Reuters) - German carmaker Audi created so-called thwarting devices which cut emissions in 1999, age before fosterage caller-out Volkswagen (VW) victimised them to trickster diesel emissions tests, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday. VW, Europe's largest automaker, admitted in September it had manipulated the engines of roughly 11 million diesel cars, including its VW, Audi, Porsche, Skoda and Behind brands. Engineers at Audi developed bundle surface of cut certain locomotor functions in 1999, but it was ne'er victimized by the VW luxury partitioning, the newspaper said in an antenna sack of an article due to be published on Wednesday, which cited industry and order sources.
Six years subsequently, when VW engineers at the truehearted's Wolfsburg hq were otiose to turn n oxide emissions below efficacious thresholds, they started to demonstrate the box developed by Audi, Handelsblatt said.
VW and Audi both declined to comment on the cogitation, citing ongoing investigations by U.S. law firm Jones Day into the diesel emissions soil.
VW has said Jones Day will dismission a "lusty cogitation" on its findings by the end of April. VW's supervisory board is due to dissertate the potential costs of the emissions stain and okeh 2015 cabbage on April 22, a day astern a deadline for VW and U.S. regulators to hold a dissolver for U.S. cars fitted with the bundle. (Reporting by Andreas Cremer; Editing by Alexander Smith)
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