Volkswagen probe to cover more 3.0-litre models

Since their initial scandal regarding gas emissions, Volkswagen has been facing a lot of trouble regarding their diesel cars, and the company may even have to recall a number of their cars.

Environmental regulators in California will take 20 days to review the plan and could ask VW to make revisions.

It’s a fatuous argument, and clearly has more to do with the costs of offering the same deal in Europe as in the US.

The disclosure widened the scandal, which had previously focused mainly on smaller-engined, mass-market cars, and raised the possibility that engineers at both the Audi and VW brands could have been involved in separate emissions schemes. He also stated that the company did not inform the EPA about the software, and that the EPA considers it to be a form of defeat device.

Volkswagen told the EPA and the California Air Resources Board the software is on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3-liter engines going back to the 2009 model year. It was earlier this month that the regulators accused Volkswagen of installing the so-called “defeat device” on about 10,000 cars from the 2014 through 2016 model years, in violation of the Clean Air Act.

“Financial compensation will exclusively be offered to customers in the USA and Canada”, the spokesman told Automotive News Europe.

Among the cars affected were the VW Touareg, the Porsche Cayenne and various Audi luxury models, the US Environmental Protection Agency said.

Volkswagen will reduced spending by 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) in 2016 and “strictly prioritize” investments as it readies to contend with the ongoing fallout from the scandal, CEO Michael Mueller in a statement Friday.

To compensate owners of Volkswagens that have been programmed to artificially “pass” emissions testing – a few 482,000 2.0-liter diesels and another 75,000 3.0-liter V6es that the company initially denied had the software – North American Volkswagen owners were offered $1000 in gift cards.

Information for this article was contributed by Tom Krisher and Michael Biesecker of The Associated Press; by Jack Ewing of The NY Times; and by Jeff Plungis and Dana Hull of Bloomberg News.