VW to pay customers $US5000 to settle
AAP on April 21, 2016, 7:50 am
Volkswagen has reached a deal with US authorities to settle the case over its cheating of diesel emissions tests that would involve it paying each affected customer $US5000 ($A6394), Germany's Die Welt newspaper reportS.
Citing unidentified sources close to the negotiations, Die Welt said on Wednesday the agreement would be presented on Thursday to Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, avoiding a trial that was set to start in the summer.
A US federal judge last month gave Volkswagen and regulators until April 21 to agree on a fix for nearly 600,000 diesel cars on US roads implicated by VW's emissions test-rigging scandal.
