Volkswagen said its manipulations of carbon dioxide emission levels affect more gasoline-powered engines at the German carmaker than it had previously disclosed.
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In conversation with reporters at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, Audi of America President Scott Keogh said that the sales of the Audi brand in the USA will not witness a decline due to the Volkswagen (VW) diesel emissions scandal.
“I am personally hopeful that we will be able to announce something soon about the remedies that we have identified and which we are discussing with the agencies in the upcoming days”, said Horn. In total, that could mean at least $120 million in benefits to the participating owners. “Starting November 9, we have been providing our 2.0-liter TDI engine customers with a $500 prepaid visa loyalty card, a $500 Volkswagen dealership card and a no-charge VW service card for three years”, he said.
The bottomless scandal… Most of the VW scandal so far has been about diesel vehicles that were rigged with technology that detects when an emission test is being performed, modifying how the engine operates during the test to pass, but polluting orders of magnitude more the rest of the time.
Everyone is expecting a solution as soon as possible from Volkswagen, from the owners of the affected cars to the regulators of markets on which those models were sold.
While testifying before Congress, Horn said that the fix could take one to two years.
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The auto industry has been shocked by the Volkswagen scandal, in which the world’s largest automaker was shown to have programmed its 2009-2015 four-cylinder diesel cars to perform well in official anti-pollution testing in the lab, but then override the pollution controls for better road performance when out in the real world.
