[FenwickHockey65]

Originally Posted by Hilflos

I've heard, should maximum fine be levied per vehicle, just for those within the U.S. alone the fines could reach 18.75 billion. The numbers I saw were approximately 500,000 cars and a max fine of 37.5k per.

That was on another forum though. So take it with salt lick sized grains of salt.

I have also read that, even with the proposed fix, that the cars in question will still not be emissions legal within California. So, there's a bunch of California VW owners with a rather large, actionable, issue to resolve.

VAG as a whole is so large that I doubt the company itself will go away entirely, but the VW brand? Yeah, they're in some real trouble, not just in the U.S., though I wouldn't be surprised to see them withdraw from the U.S.

My understanding is that some of the Audi A3's are impacted by this too. No idea of the numbers there.

I've seen the same figures. The VW brand is struggling in the US anyways so a withdrawal is a real possibility.