09-23-2015, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Hilflos
I've heard, should maximum fine be levied per vehicle, just for those within the U.S. alone the fines could reach 18.75 billion. The numbers I saw were approximately 500,000 cars and a max fine of 37.5k per.
That was on another forum though. So take it with salt lick sized grains of salt.
I have also read that, even with the proposed fix, that the cars in question will still not be emissions legal within California. So, there's a bunch of California VW owners with a rather large, actionable, issue to resolve.
VAG as a whole is so large that I doubt the company itself will go away entirely, but the VW brand? Yeah, they're in some real trouble, not just in the U.S., though I wouldn't be surprised to see them withdraw from the U.S.
My understanding is that some of the Audi A3's are impacted by this too. No idea of the numbers there.
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And Skoda and maybe SEAL (not as familiar with them). I think almost all Skoda vehicles have the common-rail TDI engines.
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