If you have a diesel Voklkswagen and you’ve been waiting for a fix, you’ll have to wait until January. That’s when the company plans to begin recalling the 11 million or so vehicles that need to be addressed. But this is still being planned out as the Toronto Star illustrates:
Volkswagen has said up to 11 million vehicles worldwide across several of its brands contain the diesel engine with the software used to cheat on U.S. emissions tests. CEO Matthias Mueller told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “It will hopefully be fewer, but in any case still far too many.”
Asked when the recall will begin, Mueller said in an interview published Wednesday that “care goes before speed.”
“If everything goes as planned, we can start the recall in January,” he said. “All the cars should be in order by the end of 2016.”
Volkswagen Canada said no details are available about when the recalls will begin Canada. “There is still a lot that needs to be done, including figuring out exactly where the issue lies and the best solution to that problem,” VW Canada spokesman Thomas Tetzlaff said Wednesday.
In short, VW will have to figure out if the cars simply need a software update, or will they need additional parts to meet emission standards. And they’ll have to do this for each country that they are in. Sounds like fun. Not.
In the meantime, VW sales in Canada have fallen off a cliff because of #dieselgate. No shock there. To try and get you to buy their vehicles, VW has a incentive package on the table. Until November 2, VW is offering zero-percent financing for 84 months, or big discounts for cash buyers. Of course, with the diesel engine stop-sale order still in place, these deals apply only to the brand’s gasoline-powered models.The full list of offers can be found here, but one wonders what will happen if their sales are still in the tank after November 2nd.
#Dieselgate Recalls To Begin In January….. And VW Digs Deep To Get You To Buy Their Cars
If you have a diesel Voklkswagen and you’ve been waiting for a fix, you’ll have to wait until January. That’s when the company plans to begin recalling the 11 million or so vehicles that need to be addressed. But this is still being planned out as the Toronto Star illustrates:
Volkswagen has said up to 11 million vehicles worldwide across several of its brands contain the diesel engine with the software used to cheat on U.S. emissions tests. CEO Matthias Mueller told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “It will hopefully be fewer, but in any case still far too many.”
Asked when the recall will begin, Mueller said in an interview published Wednesday that “care goes before speed.”
“If everything goes as planned, we can start the recall in January,” he said. “All the cars should be in order by the end of 2016.”
Volkswagen Canada said no details are available about when the recalls will begin Canada. “There is still a lot that needs to be done, including figuring out exactly where the issue lies and the best solution to that problem,” VW Canada spokesman Thomas Tetzlaff said Wednesday.
In short, VW will have to figure out if the cars simply need a software update, or will they need additional parts to meet emission standards. And they’ll have to do this for each country that they are in. Sounds like fun. Not.
In the meantime, VW sales in Canada have fallen off a cliff because of #dieselgate. No shock there. To try and get you to buy their vehicles, VW has a incentive package on the table. Until November 2, VW is offering zero-percent financing for 84 months, or big discounts for cash buyers. Of course, with the diesel engine stop-sale order still in place, these deals apply only to the brand’s gasoline-powered models.The full list of offers can be found here, but one wonders what will happen if their sales are still in the tank after November 2nd.
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