VW ready to fight owners in court 16 | 03 | 2017

    SCOTS VOLKSWAGEN OWNERS hoping to claim compensation from the German car giant in the wake of the Dieselgate fiasco have been sent a clinical message: “We’ll see you in court.”

    VW Group CEO Matthias Muller (pictured) says the company is 'relaxed' about the threat from European car owners trying to claim that the approved fixes have negatively affected their vehicles.

    By this autumn, VW expects to have software and hardware fixes fitted to the illegal 11 million cars outside of the US.

    The fixes, which are certified as returning the cars to their homologated economy and emissions standards, were pre-approved by the KBA, Germany’s national motoring authority.

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    Perhaps more significantly, Volkswagen has made it clear that it has closely monitored resale values of affected cars. The findings, along with those of independent residual value companies, proves, it says, that no owners have suffered a material loss as a result of the scandal.

    “As regards lawsuits, we can only repeat that our updates are okay,” Muller said. “We have done thousands of measurements in conjunction with the KBA which show our solutions do not affect cars negatively in any way.

    “If people think they know better, then let them try to prove it and we will discuss that intensely in court. But I have to say we are relaxed about it.”

    Related: Record profits for VW despite Dieselgate

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    Jim McGill

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