Volkswagen has fixed less than 10% of rigged European cars

Volkswagen is making slow progress on fixing cars equipped with illicit engine software in Europe, having repaired less than 10% of the 8.5 million affected models, the company has said.

Germany’s KBA motor vehicle authority has approved proposed fixes that would resolve the problem in about 5.1 million vehicles, said the VW manager in charge of the European diesel recall necessitated by the emissions cheating scandal that has engulfed the company.

“Ten percent of this (number) have been retrofitted with good results,” Manfred Bort said in VW’s in-house journal “inside” published yesterday.