This Aerial Video Puts The Scale Of VW's Buyback Scheme Into Perspective
Around half a million cars are affected by the VW diesel emissions fixing scandal that kicked off in 2015. A huge chunk of the ‘cheating’ vehicles are being purchased by the German car maker as part of an extensive buyback scheme, but that leaves the problem of storage.
It’s unclear at the moment if the buyback cars will be fixed or simply scrapped, so for the time being, they sit unused in parking lots across the USA. One of these is the Pontiac Silverdome stadium, closed since 2013. This aerial footage of the site puts the sheer scale of the scheme and the wider scandal into perspective, particularly when you bear in mind it’s one of several sites, with thousands of cars stored in locations such as the Port of Baltimore and Norton Air Force Base.
These are perfectly useable, functioning and in some cases fun-to-drive cars, so it’s sad to see them sat in this state of limbo, awaiting their fate.
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The amount of boring colours…
I really hope they left each key in each individual car. Because that would be a nightmare to have to match a key to a certain car in that lot
All the stance boys be gutted
Omg guys I made a JOKE, lets not start world war 3 over something so petty :)
Hey if they fix some I wouldn’t mind buying a golf or something for a discount even if it’s an older model
4K…thats some high quality embarrassment
That’s what you get when doing business in a strict ruled, first world country like America… We here in 3rd world countries, can keep the engine running for as long as we want! XD
Imo it’s just cheaper way to make smoke clouds since everyone can’t afford buying new tires that often.
What a load of bullshit. Nobody bought these cars because of their claimed emission standard, but because they were cheap and practical. People giving them back now and saying they bought them because they were clean are greedy liars. Warning, special trigger ahead Even more: Americans being the only ones getting refunds: Not to generalize here, but you see up there how often that happens. People getting angry about the emissions of a 1.4 Tdi in a country where it’s perfectly normal to drive around in big (petrol and diesel) powered trucks, often with big V6 or V8 engines. I see, that nothing like rolling coal is standard, nowhere, but the regulations in America are ridiculous. Just to put it into perspective: If you decat a car in Germany, you have to get that modification (like most others) registered and pay excessive taxes for it. If you don’t register it, the penalties are high. If you decat a car in America, nobody bats an eye
We canadians are getting something soon, either fixing the car and getting $5000 or buying the car back and potentially getting extra money. Amd yes, the amount of anger about a 2.0l compared to 6.7l diesels rolling coal is stupid.
this is stupid as it can get…. these cars pollute 100x less than crap cars from 70-s and 80-s.. large v8s…butter they gave thwm away and remove crap from road that pollutes 1000x times more
The United States EPA states that the maximum safe limit to NO2 production from cars should be at 100 parts per BILLION, with dieselgate allowing for up to 40X this amount to be produced by their cars. A second generation Camaro, for example, even in the middle of a public debate regarding the fuel crisis and fuel additives and made to be more efficient because of this, produced near 10X what is legally allowed today, at 1000 ppb. So no, not even old V8’s can pollute more then what Dieselgate allowed for.
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