As part of exhaust affair, Volkswagen has to pay 192 million euros to owners of diesel vehicles with 3.0-litre engines. This was agreed by Auto group from Wolfsburg and by plaintiffs ‘ lawyers last Friday. The comparison concerns models VW Touareg, Porsche Cayenne as well as various luxury cars from Audi Q7 of model years 2009 to 2016.
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The agreement is initially a provisional agreement which must still be approved by competent courts. Already a year ago VW had agreed with plaintiffs from Canada on payment of 1.4 billion euros. At that time it was about models with a 2.0-liter engine.
Compensation, repairs, repurchase
In current comparison, in addition to compensation payments, group undertakes to make repairs and partly also to buy-back and redemption offers for owners and leasing companies of around 20,000 vehicles equipped with illegal exhaust gas technology. . In addition, VW is to pay a civil penalty of 1.6 million euros.
VW had conceded in September 2015 to pressure from US environmental authorities to have cheated on a large scale in exhaust gas tests. Worldwide, affair concerns around eleven million diesel cars. In USA alone, scandal has already cost group more than 25 billion euros.
