involved to certify these cars and you can't just sort of find one model like for example the gulf of volkswagen or the may gone at renault have to certify each type of that model with a different engine with a different transmission with different options air conditioning or not to navigation or not the different weights and this over different driving conditions different speeds so it's an immensely complicated and time consuming issue and that just means that cars don't move a lot while the certification for each of these probably thousands of different types of vehicles is still out there will it's no wonder then that b.w. says it will continue to see effects this month this month but it predicts stronger months to follow is that over to mystic. we don't really know i suspect that is because at some time the testing will be over and then customers will be able to take delivery of cars they order dealers will be able to start selling again and the market was in a good shape before this we see this by the nine months figures january to september and it's not just folks wagon saying that there'

bloomberg's gulf economy and government reporter, and she will clearly continue to be working on this developing story. up next, juergen stackmann joins us exclusively. volkswagen's head of will talk to us about what's going on with the brand here in europe, as well as in the u.s. and china. this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: this is the european open. we are 20 minutes into the equity trading day in europe, and after a bit of a muted start, we have seen the stoxx 600 gaining momentum, up 0.6% overall. quite a lot of green across the region. you can see on the world map function. we are seeing the ftse 100, pretty much flat, but we are seeing bigger moves when it comes to some of the other equity indices. quite a lot of green. it looks like the cac 40 there is up 0.25%. dax up 0.4%. ftse mib outperforming to the upside, along with the ibex. matt: thanks for a much to that -- for that. let's get to one of my favorite topics, the auto sector. we have with us volkswagen brand head of sales juergen stackmann for an exclusive sit down. isa time when volkswagen struggling to fight back for better brand recognition after dieselgate, with a whole slew of new products with which they wi