VW Emission lawsuit

[MegaSteve]

In one corner we have a large multi-national company who have DELIBERATELY and KNOWINGLY LIED...

In the other corner we have ordinary folk who MIGHT realise a relatively small sum of money as compensation for having been taken in by the lies...

And, they are considered as being the villains of the piece... Strange old world...

 

[Deleted member 15344]

In one corner we have a large multi-national company who have DELIBERATELY and KNOWINGLY LIED...

In the other corner we have ordinary folk who MIGHT realise a relatively small sum of money as compensation for having been taken in by the lies...

And, they are considered as being the villains of the piece... Strange old world...

Should every single person been compensated money wise any time a company lies ?

The villains are the company who did manipulate tests on a data sheet to give the car lower emissions reading

Then you have the people who IMO are jumping on a bandwagon to get some money for doing nothing

If they bought the car based on getting lower tax rates due to emissions - well they are still getting that so they are not going to be put f pocket in that sense

If there is an issue in regards the second hand value then the company should offer the expect rate to compensate if they so wish to,exchange the car for one with the correct emissions

But let's be honest people chasing a couple thousand are doing it because an ambulance chasing lawyer is knocking on their door with lots of promises of no win no fee claims - that's what happens with the blame and claim culture very much evident in modern day society, the lawyers aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart

An apology from the company , billions of fines to go towards helping the envirment and roads and that should be that

 

[Imurg]

But we get lied to every day
Politicians, Weather forecasters,Salesmen.....
They are all liberal with the truth but unless Joe Public actually loses out, what is there to compensate for..?
Reluctantly bringing up the referendum, we got lied to by both sides - who can we sue.....?
People bought a car that they would almost certainly have bought anyway and it pumps out more crud than they were told.....
Where's the loss? The car works the same, it uses the same amount of fuel, it goes the same speed....
If we were allowed to sue every time someone hurt our feelings we'd all be bankrupt pretty soon...

 

[USER1999]

In one corner we have a large multi-national company who have DELIBERATELY and KNOWINGLY LIED...

In the other corner we have ordinary folk who MIGHT realise a relatively small sum of money as compensation for having been taken in by the lies...

And, they are considered as being the villains of the piece... Strange old world...

But it is still the government who have lost out. They have not been paid the tax that should have been due.

Sorry, 4k per owner is not a small amount of cash for the pretty minor irritation of their car being marginally more polluting than they had hoped it might be.

 

[DCB]

Last company car I drove was a Passat Bluemotion, fuel economy was superb on it for the type of driving I did. I've yet to drive any car that got close to the manufacturers "official" figures.

Bottom line when choosing a car, was always, what will it cost me to run, fuel, road tax and cost of company car tax. The "Green " element only came into it when dealing with company car tax costs. Never knew anyone who looked at cars based on "Green" figures unless it was a hybrid.

 

[Tashyboy]

If you went for a club fitting and you hit their driver 300 yds every shot.
When you got home you could only hit it 200 yds .
you then found out that the OEM had doctored the software to just sell you the club would you feel cheated?
would you want a refund?
would you be happy with a adjustment but it still did not do what they promised you?
If they sold 1.2 million of these making a nice profit.
would you be happy for the government keeping all the fine they paid?
VW did this and have been caught.
Now Fiat and Crysler have been caught and they won't be the last!

That sounds like you on about me when I went for my SLDR fitting

 

[MegaSteve]

But it is still the government who have lost out. They have not been paid the tax that should have been due.

Sorry, 4k per owner is not a small amount of cash for the pretty minor irritation of their car being marginally more polluting than they had hoped it might be.

Sorry but, how do you know it'll be 4k?

And, as I mentioned earlier I know of two that genuinely feel the 'situation' was used against them when trading in... So, I am sure there will be others that will be feeling the same...

I would've been interested if this was a British or French manufacturer that was working this 'ploy' what the reaction would've been...

And, apologies got cheated out my golf this morning [by the weather] so have got nothing else better to do than argue the toss over something that doesn't effect me...

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Renault being looked at by it's own Government now.....

Lets be honest, the best kicking you could give VW (if you wanted to) would be to not buy anything from that group again. Personally I think the British badge snobbery will put a stop on that idea.

As for cars actually achieving (or almost) the claimed figures, my wife has a Ssangyong Tivoli 4wd auto diesel (without doubt the one of the most sweetest diesel engines I have seen and heard) and the mpg she gets from it are nigh on what the book says. Ok the co2 isn't sub 120g, but I belive them to be a fairly acurate reflection f going by the mpg is anything to go by.