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VW Says Cheater V-6 Diesels Can Be Fixed
Volkswagen AG tells a U.S. federal court in San Francisco the company believes it can repair some 85,000 of its V-6 diesels that regulators say were secretly equipped with a system to evade emission standards.
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Volkswagen AG tells a U.S. federal court in San Francisco the company believes it can repair some 85,000 of its V-6 diesels that regulators say were secretly equipped with a system to evade emission standards.
The V-6 diesels were not a part of VW’s $15.3 billion settlement earlier this week to fix or buy back 475,000 U.S. vehicles with 4-cylinder diesels that were rigged to evade pollution limits. Those engines were fitted with a different system to trick emission tests.
No deadline has been set for repairing the larger engines, which were used in 2009-2016 model VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne SUVs, Audi A6 and A7 large sedans and Audi Q5 and Q7 crossover vehicles.
VW and a representative from the U.S. Dept. of Justice says the carmaker’s proposed V-6 remedy is being tested now. VW describes the repair as relatively easy and says the updates won’t negatively affect vehicle performance.
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