"We have no reason to budge from our previous statements. We do not use defeat devices ... Renault has assured us that it also doesn't," a spokesman for Daimler told Reuters on Thursday.

Renault said earlier that fraud investigators had inspected three of its sites in an emissions probe, news that wiped billions off its market value in an echo of the scandal engulfing German rival Volkswagen.

(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach; Writing by Maria Sheahan; Editing by Christoph Steitz)

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