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Title: Shocking images of VW cars dumped in Californian desert by German manufacturer after it was forced to buy back 350,000 cars for $7billion over diesel scandal
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... dumped-Californian-desert.html
Published: Mar 30, 2018
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2018-03-30 16:04:45 by Horse
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Images reveal a vast car graveyard where thousands of VWs cars are being stored in the California desert Concerns over nitrogen dioxide emissions have grown since Volkswagen was found in September 2015 to have cheated air pollution tests for 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide VW was eventually forced to buy back 350,000 cars for $7.4 billion over the dieselgate scandal German automaker has been forced to get creative when it comes to storing the cars, such as a shuttered Detroit football stadium, a former Minnesota paper mill and the desert site near Victorville, California VW spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan insisted the desert site is one of many 'to ensure the responsible storage of vehicles that are bought back under the terms of the Volkswagen's diesel settlements' Shocking images have emerged showing lines of cars stretching out as far as the eye can see in the Californian desert after Volkswagen was forced to buy back 350,000 cars for $7.4 billion over the diesel scandal. The German automaker has been forced to get creative when it comes to responsibly storing the hundreds of thousands of vehicles they had to buy back. Storage lots include a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, a former Minnesota paper mill and the desert site near Victorville, California. 
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Actually, those were/are great vehicles; both my brother and a friend have them and just rave about how good they are.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Those diesel VWs remind me of that old song by Roy Clark, "Thank God And Greyhound." ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: Lod (#1)
those were/are great vehicles; both my brother and a friend have them and just rave about how good they are.
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