AstraZeneca cancels Volkswagen Group fleet orders

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19 November 2015

AstraZeneca has cancelled vehicle orders with Volkswagen Group brands in the wake of the emissions scandal, Fleet News understands.

The company is believed to have suspended orders of Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat vehicles worldwide, pending results of Volkswagen Group's investigations into NOx defeat devices on diesel models and CO2 issues around certain vehicles.

The company has around 750 vehicles on its fleet in the UK, and 20,000 worldwide in 70 countries.

The emissions scandal affects 11 million diesel models across the group worldwide, and the company has said that it will take nearly a year to implement fixes to affected vehicles.

Meanwhile, unrelated issues regarding CO2 emission levels being reported incorrectly are said to affect 800,000 vehicles worldwide, across the 15 and 16 model years, also including 1.4 TSI petrol models.

Fleet News revealed last week how Volkswagen Group brands in the UK - VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat - told fleets they could not currently guarantee the CO2 emissions of certain vehicles. Quoted figures were instead being labelled "provisional", with disclaimers appearing on all of the VW Group manufacturers’ websites.

Volkswagen Group refused to comment about the pharmaceutical company's decision and despite repeated requests for further information from AstraZeneca it has so far not responded.

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Steve Bedford - 20/11/2015 19:06

I'm sure it won't be the last cancellation! RIP VW.
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Ste - 24/11/2015 11:50

It isn't the last, I know of another massive US multinational who have also stopped VW orders. Ouch..
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Sage & Onion - 25/11/2015 17:43

A bit of a knee jerk reaction in my opinion. But I hope they have measured and compared real world driving emissions of their VW branded cars to non-VW cars (if they have any). But the good news is that this may bring forward long lead times for other VW customers who aren't so blinkered by all the negative press that VW are getting.
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- Ste - 26/11/2015 11:11
  
  You are clearly a fan of VW and as an ex-owner of a VW I also like them, however if a corporate has a strong integrity policy which a supplier such as VW has signed up to and then the supplier breaks that policy, it is good practise (not a knee jerk reaction) to stop using them until the situation is clearer and their behaviour and actions come back inside the integrity policy.
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