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VW Won’t Offer Compensation to European Owners of Its Cheater Diesels
Volkswagen AG tells Automotive News Europe it won’t offer its European diesel customers the program that gives the company’s U.S. customers $1,000 in compensation for vehicles rigged to cheat emission tests.
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Volkswagen AG tells Automotive News Europe it won’t offer its European diesel customers the program that gives the company’s U.S. customers $1,000 in compensation for vehicles rigged to cheat emission tests.
The U.S. program targets 482,000 vehicles equipped with 4-cylinder diesels. VW is preparing to repair 8.5 million similarly modified cars in Europe.
VW tells ANE the compensation program makes sense in the U.S., where diesel fuel is more expensive than gasoline and customers thought they were paying extra to get a “cleaner” vehicle. In Europe, where diesels account for about half of new-car sales, fuel is cheaper than gasoline, and the engines qualify for tax discounts.
VW also says affected customers in Europe will be less inconvenienced because the company will begin fixing targeted cars in January. A plan to do the same in the U.S. is not as close to being implemented.
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