Reports Claim Volkswagen May Offer Cash Cards To Diesel Owners

They can use the second card to purchase accessories, tires, and so on.

A Volkswagen spokesman confirmed that a sales initiative was planned, but declined to provide any details.

“There is a program in the works with VW, that I do understand” Volkswagen dealer Alan Brown told the Times.

This initiative is believed to be one of the first steps that the company has to make in order to restore the consumer’s faith in the largest automaker in Europe.

German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said earlier this week that customers should not have to cough up additional levies because VW deliberately understated the vehicles’ Carbon dioxide emissions.

On Saturday, two dealers said they knew that VW was planning to do something but were not aware of any specifics.

However, owners of the affected models will have to visit the nearest Volkswagen dealership and the proof of vehicle ownership in order to participate in the campaign and activate the prepaid cards.

“The question is whether customers will be required to release VW of liability”, he said.

He said sales of diesel engines could suffer as a result of VW’s use of technological trickery to pass emissions tests.

VW in September admitted that it had cheated on diesel emissions tests in the US.

He says the 11 million vehicles affected by the scandal – which involves a device that is able to lower nitrogen oxide emissions when the vehicle is being tested but is inactive when the auto is being driven – range from 1.2- to 2-litre models.

That plunge was driven by the revelation that the emissions scandal, heretofore confined to the company’s diesel-engined cars, also involved a few of its gasoline or petrol engines as well.

VW officials have since denied that the software in those cars was created to underreport emissions. The findings were disclosed during an internal investigation.

Volkswagen has admitted that up to 800,000 of its vehicles in Europe have been provided with falsified Carbon dioxide emissions claims.

Meanwhile, Volkswagen has gone on record saying that it will make changes to the cars involved in the emissions cheating scandal, so that they could comply with government regulations.