Judge Issues New Deadline for VW Diesel Fix

CARS.COM — A U.S. judge today extended Volkswagen's deadline to provide a proposed fix to the EPA for its noncompliant diesel cars, Bloomberg News reported. The German automaker, which was to have presented a fix today to the court, now has until April 21 to develop its plan.

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The judge said Thursday that VW has made "substantial progress," but the automaker is running into complications engineering a fix, according to Bloomberg.

Volkswagen installed "defeat device" software in nearly 600,000 diesel cars in the U.S. These cars from the 2009-16 model years have software that switched on during EPA emissions testing, but turned off during real-world use.

The automaker issued a stop-sale on all affected four-cylinder and V-6 diesel cars in 2015.

Read more at Bloomberg News.



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