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As expected, a federal district-court judge gave preliminary approval yesterday to a plan for Volkswagen to buy back or modify hundreds of thousands of 2.0-liter diesel vehicles sold from 2009 through 2015. The cars, sold by VW and Audi, contained "defeat device" software that kept their emissions within legal limits only during testing, but bypassed emission controls in real-world driving. Volkswagen must buy back or modify 85 percent of the 466,000 cars sold with those engines. Separately, it will pay owners who agree not to sue the company up to $5,000 each. DON'T MISS: VW diesel deal...
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Updates to VW diesel cars: a few details, timing emerge on modifications
With luck, owners of the 466,000 Volkswagen and Audi 2.0-liter diesel cars at the center of the VW emission cheating scandal now know that they will be offered a choice of what to do with their cars. Either they will be able to sell their cars back to the company for a set price, or they can have...
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VW's long road ahead to restore consumer trust, faith in green credentials
Volkswagen has a long way to go before it restores its green credentials.
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VW diesel deal: what should I do? Take buyback? Wait for updates?
It's a question that hundreds of thousands of VW 2.0-liter TDI diesel owners will be asking soon, if they haven't already: Should I take the buyback? Some have already made up their minds. They want their cars to go away, and will sell them back to the manufacturer that deceived them and lied to...
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Why VW killed its TDI diesels in the U.S.: future emission standards
Hell hath no fury like a well-meaning government regulator who's been sneered at and condescended to by executives of one of the world's largest auto companies—only to learn the company has systematically lied to her and deliberately violated the laws she's charged with enforcing. After the...
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What does VW's diesel-pollution mitigation program actually do?
Last month's settlement proposal to resolve the claims of more than 450,000 owners of VW and Audi 2.0-liter diesel cars contains quite a few separate requirements in its hundreds of pages. As well as buybacks of the affected cars and separate cash payments to owners, it requires Volkswagen to set...
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Owners of several of the pricier Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen models fitted with VW's 3.0-liter V-6 turbodiesel engine will have to wait a little longer to find out what VW Group will have to do to make them comply with emission regulations. A final proposal for buybacks and possible modifications for more than 450,000 smaller 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel models will be released at the end of this month. But the powerful California Air Resources Board has kicked back a VW proposal for modifications to the V-6 diesels that was submitted in February. DON'T MISS: VW 2.0-liter diesel settlement...
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What do VW dealers get from the diesel-emission settlement?
Volkswagen dealers continue to negotiate with the company over diesel reparations.
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What buyback, cash do I get if I bought a VW diesel after Sept. 18?
Volkswagen and Audi owners who bought their TDI cars after September 18 get less money in the settlement announced last week.
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VW thinks it can fix 85,000 V-6 diesels from Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen
Volkswagen believes it can address excess emissions from 3.0-liter V-6 TDI diesels.
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What will I get for my VW diesel car in the buyback?
Here's what you can expect to get for your VW TDI diesel in the recently-announced settlement.
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What will VW do with 400,000 dirty diesel cars it buys back?
What will VW do with 400,000 dirty diesel cars it buys back? Destroy them, probably
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More than nine months after the Volkswagen diesel cheating scandal came to light, the full details of the proposed final settlement between VW and the EPA were released this morning by Judge Charles Breyer. Owners of the TDI diesel vehicles from Audi and Volkswagen fitted with "defeat device" software between 2009 and 2015 must now decide what to do. But they also have to wait four more weeks, while comments on the proposed deal are received by both parties—and a lot of commenting is anticipated. The current date for the finalized terms to be released is July 26, after which VW will...
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VW to offer TDI diesel owners $7,000 plus buyback: rumor
With terms of a final settlement between Volkswagen and the EPA on 482,000 TDI diesel vehicles due to be announced next Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer has imposed a gag order on all parties. That doesn't seem to have stopped unidenitfied sources from talking about possible terms contained in the...
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VW diesel owners have lost $1,500 in value on their cars: price analysis
With full details of the Volkswagen diesel cheating settlement postponed again, VW TDI owners have an extra week to contemplate their diesel cars without knowing what they'll be offered in a buyback. Earlier analyses of used-car pricing data showed that their value as used cars has fallen since the...
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Volkswagen diesel settlement delayed one more week by judge
Next Tuesday was to be the day when owners of almost half a million Volkswagens and Audis learned the final terms VW would offer them to settle hundreds of lawsuits over its diesel-emission cheating software. It won't be. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer gave Volkswagen and the EPA one more week...
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VW diesel settlement: progress being made on details, judge says
The Federal judge overseeing negotiations toward a U.S. settlement of the Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal said Tuesday that good progress was being made toward reaching a final resolution by June 21. The Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen are on track to file a final...
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These engineers uncovered the VW diesel emission scandal
How West Virginia University engineers uncovered Volkswagen's emissions cheating.
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Last November, the EPA announced that nearly 100,000 cars and SUVs fitted with VW Group's 3-liter V-6 diesel engines violated the Clean Air Act. The agency said at the time that their emissions were up to nine times the legal limit in some circumstances. While that's better than the figure of "up to 35 times" legal limits for some 2.0-liter 4-cylinder VW diesels, we now know the broad outlines of a buyback-or-fix agreement for those 2-liter cars. CHECK OUT: VW 2.0-liter diesel agreement: what we know (and don't know) in 5 questions Owners of the larger diesel vehicles remain in limbo, not...
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How VW's 3-liter diesel cheat worked; fate unclear for V-6 TDI vehicles
After last month's announcement of a plan that could pull hundreds of thousands of illegally polluting VW Group diesel cars off the road, one out of every six TDI owners is still in limbo. That's because the plan covers only the 482,000 cars equipped with Volkswagen's 2.0-liter 4-cylinder...
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VW diesel 'defeat' software built by Audi, which never used it
Audi developed a "defeat device" in 1999, a new report claims.
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VW diesel buyback: what other automakers paid for used vehicles
A main aspect of the agreement between VW and the EPA to settle its diesel-emission cheating scandal is an offer by Volkswagen to buy back all 482,000 2.0-liter TDI diesel vehicles sold from 2009 through 2015. The details of that agreement won't be made public until June 21, and won't be finalized...
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VW CEO's 'plea for mercy' to Obama over diesel cheating scandal
Sometimes the language and imagery of a news story is so startling that you're drawn to read it despite yourself. (The writer gets double points if it you're lured in without the phrase, "...and you'll never guess what happens next!") A headline and phrase last week in The New York Times happened...
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Volkswagen misses own deadline for diesel-cheating report, now expected by end of year
Ten days ago, a major milestone in the Volkswagen diesel cheating scandal was reached. On Thursday, April 21, VW and the EPA agreed on the broad-stroke outlines of a plan to buy back or modify for 482,000 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars sold from 2009 through 2015. Almost lost in the coverage of that...
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