Diesel variants of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Suzuki Vitara have been found to break EU emission rules and must be fixed, or both models will face a sales ban in Europe. This is according to the Dutch road authority (RDW), acting as the reference regulator for across the European Union, reported by Reuters.
The RDW said that Jeep has developed a software fix for the issue and that it had ordered the FCA brand to recall the Grand Cherokee across Europe to roll it out. It added Suzuki had yet to find a credible solution for the Vitara.
“Suzuki must come with adequate improvement measures or the RDW will begin the process of revoking its European type approval,” the RDW said in a statement, adding it had also started the process of revoking approval for the Jeep Grand Cherokee as a “precautionary measure.”
The RDW said it found that both the Grand Cherokee and Vitara had used “prohibited emissions strategies” that led the cars to emit higher levels of nitrogen oxide (NOx) on the road than under testing conditions. This sounds like Volkswagen’s Dieselgate and indeed regulators worldwide have been testing diesel models since the German giant admitted in 2015 that it used illegal software to cheat US emissions tests.
Separately, Autocar India reports that Suzuki will remove the Jimny from its European range because the small 4×4 won’t meet new EU emission regulations slated to take effect from 2021. Carmakers must maintain a certain average C02 level across the fleet, and the Jimny apparently drags down the average too much for Suzuki.
Word is that there’s a loophole and the popular model will return to the continent as a “commercial vehicle” with no rear seats and small interior changes next year. CVs play by different rules.
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Geely even worse, fail all the emission requirements in Europe until cannot sell there
Since when did they failed? Volvo is a top seller in Europe mate.
Volvo =/= Geely
No geely is sold in Europe
Volvo milik siapa?
Volvo milik orang Sweden. They may have Chinese money now but the work is all done by the Swedes.
And besides, the original poster specifically mentioned Geely cars, Volvo/Mercedes/Proton cars are not counted because they aren’t built by Geely.
Come to Malaysia and see, we still use Euro 2M Diesel. Europe already banned Euro 2M diesel in 1994 but it takes us 26 yrs and above to abolish Euro 2M Diesel
Thanks to Najib we now have a choice of using much cleaner EURO5 diesel. Thanks Ahjibkor!
Yeah thank you very much for helping 0.001% of private diesel car owners while close to 0.0001% of heavy vehicles chooses the Euro 5 over Euro 2.
Darnnnn…that suzuki vitara do looks beautiful design nice handsome and cool. So sayang never come to Msia.
Likes if u agree.
Kesian. Japan got caught cheating again.
Meanwhile here it is okay for Perodua to get caught cheating ASEAN NCAP test results by sending an unknown G-specced Aruz to score for them. If you go ask any Perodua showroom where to buy this exact G-spec car, they said it doesn’t exist. So how can MIROS test a car that doesn’t exist?
Perodua has a lot to answer.
Just bring the cars here to Malaysia to sell it for cheap. Don’t worry no matter which government rules neither have the balls to set industry leading emission standard.
Suzuki doesn’t sell the Vitara with a diesel engine in the Netherlands, why did the Dutch agency test one?
Because of the EU homologation. There is no homologation for the Netherlands only.
BTW: Interesting to hear that the Japanese and Americans are cheating too. Do they now have to pay billions of Dollars as well?