MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The German car manufacturer's officials met with more than 150 US dealers on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Steve Kalafer, a co-owner of a large Volkswagen franchise in the United States, who attended the meeting.
“McNabb [senior executive from Volkswagen Group of America Inc.] said the company was working toward a fair settlement and restitution for the dealers. He used the word restitution for the dealers for the first time,” Kalafer said, as quoted by the newspaper.
The Volkswagen emission scandal became public when the US Environmental Protection Agency accused the German automaker of using software to falsify emission test results for its diesel-engine cars. In September 2015, Volkswagen admitted that it had installed software in their vehicles to falsify emission tests. Up to 11 million diesel engine Volkswagen vehicles worldwide manufactured over the last six years are estimated to have been programmed to produce false test results for nitrogen oxide emissions.
