Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by Sacho on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:16AM
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Kind of like this? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-ag-agrees-plead-gu...
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by antivw on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:52AM
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That link says that VW agreed to pay $2.8 billion in fines for defrauding 590,000 car owners and cheating on emissions tests. $2.8 billion/590K vehicles < $5K/vehicle.
That's a good start on fines. Now make them reimburse 590K owners. Let's see... A Jetta has an MSRP of >$20K. So, how about reimbursing $5K-$10K of every diesel vehicle that was fraudulently sold? Or, force VW to buy them all back at original MSRP. Then they could resell them for whatever they could get for them.
Would you pay $10K for a 2 year old cheater Jetta?
Edit: removed typo