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[...] so PSA's explanation is plausible in a wider context.
Of course. The main cause of these disappearances is the implementation of the WLTP (Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure) (1), as all new vehicles will have to comply with it in January 2020 (January 2019 for new approvals of vehicles).
But life is sometimes funnier with some mockery / voluntary misinterpretation

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1: My bad, the January 2020 deadline concerns the implementation of the Euro 6D standard. The WLTP is a test procedure and a display procedure for the concerned results, not a pollution standard.