Dozens Of Cars Have Been Stolen From A VW Dieselgate Dumping Ground

Did you look at the aerial footage of VW’s Michigan buyback staging area we posted up earlier this year and think it represented a massive waste of perfectly good cars? It seems you weren’t alone, as around 60 cars have gone missing from the site.

Hundreds of cars purchased back from customers in the wake of the dieselgate scandal have been sat in limbo on the same site as the soon to be demolished Pontiac Silverdrome, with a surprising number disappearing before emerging at auctions and dealerships across a wide area.

“They were given fake titles, Michigan titles, and that’s how they were transported out of state…that’s how they were being sold, they had bogus titles on them,” Indiana State Police Sergeant Jerry Goodin said, speaking to the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday.

Many of the cars appeared at the Manheim auction house in Clarksville, Indiana. Last Stop Auto in Kentucky unwittingly purchased several of the stolen cars from Manheim, some of which have since been seized and sent back to spend more time in Pontiac Silverdrome Purgatory.

Could it have been an inside job? The police certainly seem to think so. When asked, Sgt. Goodin responded, “Daggone it, sure looks like it.”