{"id":10133,"date":"2015-11-10T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:29:04","slug":"vw-offers-goodwill-gesture-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2015\/news\/vw-offers-goodwill-gesture-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"VW offers goodwill gesture in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Motorists in the US affected by the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal have been offered a goodwill gesture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VW\u2019s offer will see customers in America receive vouchers and gift cards worth $1,000. In addition, the 482,000 motorists will be offered roadside assistance free of charge &#8211; providing they have had their VW vehicle since at least November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Audi is expected to introduce a parallel programme on Friday November 13, while VW is also undertaking a repair programme on the affected cars<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are not being made to waive their entitlement to take VW to court or go to arbitration, the car manufacturer stresses.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already offered a $2,000 trade-in offer to owners of a VW, in which they could exchange their cars for newer vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that both acts will help to placate drivers who bought a 2-litre diesel-fuelled VW and win back customer trust.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Horn, chief executive of VW&#8217;s US arm, says the firm is \u2018working tirelessly\u2019 in its bid to find a sanctioned solution to the cars affected.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has said that around 11 million four-cylinder diesel motors around the world have test-cheating software fitted.<\/p>\n<p>US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officers say these vehicles can produce between 10 and 40 times more nitrogen oxide than legal amounts when on the road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists in the US affected by the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal have been offered a goodwill gesture. VW\u2019s offer will see customers in America receive vouchers and gift cards worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2375,2374,2350,521,767],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diesel-emissions-scandal","tag-dieselgate","tag-epa","tag-volkswagen","tag-vw"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}