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Originally Posted by calumniate
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That links to a separate article. So the $18 billion in penalties is JUST for 482,000 cars in the US. They have 11,000,000 vehicles worldwide that used this same device . . . $18 billion is a hell of a lowball number in penalties that they are looking at.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/...nment_b-gdneco
The defiant boss of Volkswagen has refused to resign despite an escalation of the the emissions scandal following the admission by the world’s second largest car marker that 11m vehicles worldwide have been fitted with a defeat device designed to cheat emissions tests.
The number of cars affected dwarfs the 482,000 VWs and Audis recalled by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The figure is also higher than the number of cars VW sells in a year worldwide, reflecting the scale of the crisis.