The VW Group has agreed with Europe’s consumer affairs chief to offer an extra two years of warranty to its European owners of diesel models but no compensation, according to a European Commission spokesman.
Despite VW’s admission of cheating the emissions standards with its diesel-powered models in the U.S., the company claims that it hasn’t broken the law in Europe and sees no need to compensate its customers there.
VW’s CEO Matthias Mueller told the EU’s commissioner for consumer affairs earlier this week that his company would offer European customers a two-year extended warranty, as reported by Reuters.
However, when VW was asked for a comment on the talks with the EU commissioner, the company didn’t confirm that it had agreed to extend the warranty of the affected diesel models. Instead, it referred back to earlier “confidence-building measures”, including their commitment to fix all vehicles affected by this fall.
An extended warranty would signal the first concession made by the German automaker, as Brussels pressures them to do more for its European diesel customers. EU regulators have repeatedly expressed their frustration over VW’s attitude to not offer cash payouts to its European customers in the same way it does to U.S. owners of its affected diesel models.
The news come a day after a report that 220,000 Dutch and UK VW owners have teamed up to sue Group VW over the diesel scandal.
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