2017-04-10 13:02

What do you do with half a million rigged VWs?

A U.S. flag flutters in the wind above a Volkswagen dealership in Carlsbad, California.
Mike Blake („Reuters“)
A U.S. flag flutters in the wind above a Volkswagen dealership in Carlsbad, California. Mike Blake („Reuters“)
Volkswagen bought back hundreds of thousands of emissions-cheating cars. Now it has to figure out what to do with them all.

Volkswagen AG is making progress settling U.S. legal claims from its emission-cheating scandal, but one challenge looms unresolved: What to do with the hundreds of thousands of diesel cars it is being forced to buy back?

The German automaker agreed last year to buy back about 500,000 diesels that it rigged to pass U.S. emissions tests if it can’t figure out a way to fix them. Except for a handful of 2015 models, VW dealers can’t sell the cars until — and unless — the company comes up with repairs to satisfy regulators.

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