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VW: in sales, but the scandal continues to smoulder
Germany’s car drivers have driven the number of new registrations in February to twelve percent. Also, VW sold more cars, but the exhaust gas scandal keeps the group in breathing.
The sale plus the market leader in Germany, was 4.3 percent, significantly below the average for the industry. Much better is the Audi with a growth of 14.5 per cent. In the US, VW sales collapsed, however, after a stop of sales for the diesel models in February to 13 percent.
For the time being no take-back obligation for VW
In the case of the legal processing of the exhaust gas scandal Volkswagen can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being: After the first evaluation of a judge not to return the shaft of the affected vehicles to come on the Wolfsburg car maker in Germany. The defects in a VW Tiguan with a rigged exhaust are not values, so that the buyer can withdraw from the purchase contract, the district court of Bochum. There, the customer of a car dealership wants to force the return of his competitor exhaust-software-equipped Volkswagen.
The VW driver could use his car, even though he expel more pollutants, than the customer “may agree with his green Conscience,” said the judge: “I have come to the conclusion that the breach of duty by the defendant, is not so significant that it leads to the resignation,” he said. If this evaluation ends, but in a judgment, is open to The VW customer and the dealership now want to negotiate a settlement. The is not possible, the judge at the 16. In March a decision to announce.
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Investigation Committee in Brussels
Meanwhile, came together on Wednesday, the EU Committee of inquiry to exhaust-scandal at Volkswagen for the first time officially. Members of the European Parliament met in Brussels on Wednesday to their inaugural meeting. The social democratic Belgian Parliament member Kathleen Van Brempt was appointed leader.
The panel was set up in the Wake of the affair to manipulated diesel engines at VW. It is, among other things, the possible failures of the EU to investigate the Commission and the EU member States. “The Committee must find answers to the questions of who knew what when and why draw attention to the Manipulation has not been investigated,” said the Co-Chairman of the Greens group in the European Parliament, Rebecca Harms. The first work session is for the 22. March planned. An interim report should be available within six months of the final report with the final results not later than the beginning of 2017.
tko/bea (rtr, dpa, afp)