HARPSWELL — There are only about half a dozen auto body shops in the country that specialize in the service and restoration of the iconic Volkswagen van, and one of them is off a dirt road in Harpswell. It’s hard to find, and so is a man who stops there frequently: Bob Muller, who runs Vintage Van […]
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Maine to get a piece of $157 million VW settlement
DETROIT — Volkswagen is paying more than $157 million to 10 states to settle environmental lawsuits over the company’s diesel emissions-cheating scandal. The company says the money will go to Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. All 10 states follow California’s clean air standards. The settlement covers 3-Liter […]
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Volkswagen pleads guilty in US diesel emissions scandal
DETROIT — Volkswagen pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a brazen scheme to get around U.S. pollution rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles by using software to suppress emissions of nitrogen oxide during tests. The German automaker has agreed to pay $4.3 billion in civil and criminal penalties — the largest […]
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What VW owners can expect from $15 billion emissions settlement
DETROIT — Volkswagen owners can finally dump their cheatin’ cars, if they want to. The German automaker has agreed to an unprecedented U.S. settlement to make things right after admitting that it programmed about half-million of its diesel cars to cheat on emissions tests. When driven on the road, the vehicles put out levels of […]
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Volkswagen emissions-cheating settlement to cost $15 billion
Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Settlement Fees | FindTheCompany DETROIT — Volkswagen will spend more than $15 billion to settle consumer lawsuits and government allegations that it cheated on emissions tests in what lawyers are calling the largest auto-related class-action settlement in U.S. history. Under the settlement revealed Tuesday by a U.S. District Court in San Francisco, […]
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Own a rigged VW? Volkswagen will buy it back or fix it
SAN FRANCISCO — An agreement will give consumers who bought nearly 600,000 Volkswagen vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions tests the option of having the automaker buy back the cars or fix them, a judge said Thursday. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer did not give details on how much car owners would be paid […]
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2016 VW diesels have new software affecting emissions tests
WASHINGTON — Volkswagen has disclosed to U.S. regulators that there is additional suspect software in its 2016 diesel models that would potentially help their exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests. Volkswagen confirmed to The Associated Press that the “auxiliary emissions control device” at issue operates differently from the “defeat” device software included in the […]
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Volkswagen CEO resigns amid emissions scandal
BERLIN (AP) — The latest news on the scandal over Volkswagen’s evasion of U.S. emissions controls. All times local. UPDATED 5:10 p.m.: Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn says he is stepping down “in the interests of the company” as it grapples with the emissions scandal. Wintekorn said in a statement Wednesday that “Volkswagen needs a fresh […]