{"id":10196,"date":"2015-11-17T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:37:09","slug":"vw-must-meet-cost-of-retests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2015\/news\/vw-must-meet-cost-of-retests\/","title":{"rendered":"VW must meet cost of retests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volkswagen will have to meet the costs of retesting its vehicles in Britain in the wake of the diesel and carbon dioxide emissions scandals engulfing the German carmaker, Britain&#8217;s transport minister said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to lawmakers, transport minister Patrick McLoughlin said, \u2018We have made clear to Volkswagen Group that they will have to meet the\u00a0costs\u00a0incurred by VCA (the Vehicle Certification Agency) of retesting vehicle types to demonstrate that the vehicles have been brought into conformity,\u2019 Europe&#8217;s biggest automaker has previously said around 1.2 million vehicles in Britain have been affected by the scandal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>VW has previously said around 1.2 million vehicles in Britain have been affected by the scandal and the firm initially said it would set aside\u00a0more than the 6.5 billion euros ($7.4 billion) it has so far to cover the costs of the scandal, however many experts are now suggesting this won\u2019t be enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen will have to meet the costs of retesting its vehicles in Britain in the wake of the diesel and carbon dioxide emissions scandals engulfing the German carmaker, Britain&#8217;s transport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2375,2374,521,767],"class_list":["post-10196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diesel-emissions-scandal","tag-dieselgate","tag-volkswagen","tag-vw"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","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=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}