---
title: "Drive Wire: Audi Admits to Cheating Emissions Test"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-09-29"
modified: "2015-09-29"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/343/drive-wire-audi-admits-to-cheating-emissions-test"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Audi"
---

# Drive Wire: Audi Admits to Cheating Emissions Test

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Transcript:

More Dieselgate fallout! Audi admitted Monday morning that more than 2 million of its cars were programmed to cheat emissions tests. Only 13,000 cars in the U.S. are affected since the A3 is Audi’s only four-cylinder diesel sold in the States.

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