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German automaker, Daimler, Wednesday, threatened to drag environmental lobby group, DUH, to court over claims that test results from a Mercedes C-Class 200 CDI had indicated nitrogen oxide emissions which exceeded European legal limits.
Describing the results as “questionable”, Daimler, according to Reuters, maintained that the model used technology that met European Union standards even as it threatened to sue the German environmental lobby group should the “false claims” damage its reputation.
“The test results are questionable as the conditions of the test are not clear. We don’t know the specific car, the temperature at the time of the tests, the loading weight,” Reuters quoted a Daimler spokesman as saying.
At a media briefing, DUH, citing tests carried out by the University of Applied Sciences in Bern, Switzerland, said that the Mercedes 2011 model car , had released emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) that were more than twice the legal limits when tested with a warm engine under new European testing cycles.
In a statement , Wednesday, Daimler insisted that the car tested in Switzerland used technology certified in 2007 that met the EU’s Euro-5 standard even as it maintained that results under real driving conditions often differed from those in a laboratory.
