This Aerial Video Puts The Scale Of VW's Buyback Scheme Into Perspective
Around half a million cars are affected by the VW diesel emissions fixing scandal that kicked off in 2015. A huge chunk of the ‘cheating’ vehicles are being purchased by the German car maker as part of an extensive buyback scheme, but that leaves the problem of storage.
It’s unclear at the moment if the buyback cars will be fixed or simply scrapped, so for the time being, they sit unused in parking lots across the USA. One of these is the Pontiac Silverdome stadium, closed since 2013. This aerial footage of the site puts the sheer scale of the scheme and the wider scandal into perspective, particularly when you bear in mind it’s one of several sites, with thousands of cars stored in locations such as the Port of Baltimore and Norton Air Force Base.
These are perfectly useable, functioning and in some cases fun-to-drive cars, so it’s sad to see them sat in this state of limbo, awaiting their fate.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Why dont they sell the in places where the emission standards are lower at a lower price.. seems like a less expensive and much less wasteful way than to scrap tens of thousands of perfectly fine, almost new vehicles…
make them cheaper, import to EU, profit, cause no here bats an eye
When getting close to Chernobyl is safer than a VW car lot…….
this video legitimately makes me sad… sure, they COULD fix those cars, but you know they won’t. it’s sad those cars will never see action again. they’ve gone there… to die :(
And here they just pull the power on your engine.
Thinking of doing a remap on my dads car so it can get to original power.
Why not ship them into a country who dont care about emmision regulations?
no need to be sorry gentlemen. these are all diesel cars
Me:
Time for me to get a diesel wagon for cheap
if they sell them they might sell them for a low price then you could get a new tdi for cheap.
These dirty dieselgate VOLKSWAGENS…Are the product of a worldwide scam, going back more than 10 years to promote a scam product that kills humans and pollutes the environment we all live in…It lined the pockets of a select few Nahtzi German elites who certainly don’t give a sh!t about you….Mic dropped.
Yeah BABY YEAH!!