Exhaust scandal: VW agrees with Canada on millions comparison

In the diesel affair, Volkswagen accepts further compensation in Canada. There, the group from Wolfsburg now has to pay 192 million euros to affected customers.

Exhaust scandal: VW agrees with Canada on millions comparison

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.

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.

Date Of Update: 14 January 2018, 12:02
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