Fraud with diesel engines was not exclusive to VW

After the billionaire VW scandal, brands such as Mercedes, Ford, Nissan and Renault were caught cheating on diesel engine emissions

Now it was the turn of another German woman to be tried (Photomontage: Gabriel Fernandes | AutoPapo)
By Boris Feldman
Published on 2026-01-23 at 07:00 AM

Hard to believe, but that famous case of Volkswagen’s Dieselgate in the United States ten years ago didn’t stop there.

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Because in 2020, five years later, Mercedes-Benz was also caught with its mouth in the bottle getting ready for its fumbles with diesel engines and paid 2.2 billion dollars to the US government for fraud in NOx emissions, nitrogen oxide, in 250 cars.

And it wasn’t just Mercedes and not just in the United States. Years later, in London, Mercedes, Ford, Nissan and Renault had to come to terms with the British government for the same mess.

Boris Feldman

Journalist and engineer with 50 years of experience in the automotive press. He led newspaper and television teams and hosts the AutoPapo program on radio stations throughout the country.

Boris Feldman
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