The Federal Ministry of Transport has commissioned the Kraftfahrtbundesamt (KBA) to investigate Ford's mid-class Mondeo model for illegal shutdowns.
This was confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Transport at the request of WirtschaftsWoche. The tests on the model have been awarded to a testing institute and are already in progress according to information from the WirtschaftsWoche. The motor vehicle office has obtained results from exhaust gas tests, which allow conclusions to be drawn about possible illegal shut-off devices. This test should have been a trigger for the review of the Ford model. Ford's CEO Gunnar Herrmann argued against the economic week that Ford "neither cheated nor trickled": "No illegal switch-off devices were used in the exhaust aftertreatment of our diesel models."
The research commission "Volkswagen" of the Federal Ministry of Transport last year had the Ford models Focus and C-Max checked for possible illegal shutdown devices. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, no illegal shutdown facilities could be found. However, the final report attests to the model C-Max "very high" nitrogen oxide emissions, as soon as the car is no longer tested on the road, but on the road. The values were partly seven to nine times the limit value.
In the ADAC Ecotest 2017, Ford is among the manufacturers with the highest pollutant emissions. In the ranking of a total of 77 cars, the four tested Ford models landed on the seats 62, 72, 74 and 75. The Ford Mondeo was the negative front-runner of the German environmental aid tests: the car exceeded the nitrogen oxide- Limit in the road test by more than nine times.
However, Ford does not see any reason for a software upgrade of current diesel. For this reason, Ford is not part of the diesel alliance's alliance alliance (VW, BMW, Daimler, Opel).