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Federal judge in SF approves VW diesel car emissions settlement

Xinhua, October 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

A U.S. federal judge based in San Francisco approved on Tuesday a settlement between German Volkswagen AG (VW) and U.S. owners of its cars with 2-liter diesel engines dating to 2009.

Under the terms of the settlement, the German automaker will spend up to 10 billion U.S. dollars to buy the vehicles back or fix them and compensate about 475,000 owners.

The deal does not cover some 90,000 Volkswagen cars with 3-liter diesel engines.

Volkswagen admitted last year that it programmed the vehicles to cheat on emissions tests. Enditem