Video: After Emissions Software Scandal, Volkswagen to Buy Back Dirty Cars
Volkswagen cars are presented to media inside a delivery tower prior to the company's annual press conference in Wolfsburg, Germany, Thursday, April 28, 2016. Markus Schreiber/AP
The tainted diesel vehicles need to hit the road.
In September 2015, Volkswagen was caught in a massive scandal. The German automaker had been intentionally selling diesel-fuel cars with software that cheated emissions testing. Roughly 11 million vehicles were affected by the algorithmic dupe.
Now, the settlement Volkswagen made with U.S. regulators is public. The company must pay billions of dollars for environmental clean up and to promote zero-emissions vehicles.
And for anyone who purchased a VW or Audi diesel vehicle from 2009 to 2016 might be able to buy a new car -- on Volkswagen's dime. The company must either buy back the cars for their original cost, or fix the vehicles so they are up to legal standards in the U.S. as well as provide an extended warranty.
To learn more, check out the video below from CNET: