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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by joecool1029 on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:51PM (#13527124)
Sales don't factor in returns. If you sell a car and it's later returned, it still counts as a sale on the books.

In terms of bookkeeping, VW knew how much it roughly had to write off as soon as April 2016.

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