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| Volkswagen 'fixes 470,000 UK diesel cars' | Volkswagen 'fixes 470,000 UK diesel cars' |
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| VW's top UK executive, Paul Willis, has said that of the 1.2 million cars in the UK affected by the diesel emissions scandal, 470,000 have been fixed. | |
| "At the current rate, we are applying these measures to 20,000 cars a week," he told MPs on the Transport Committee. | "At the current rate, we are applying these measures to 20,000 cars a week," he told MPs on the Transport Committee. |
| Mr Willis added there had been no redundancies in the UK because of the diesel dishonesty. | |
| Indeed, the company was trying to recruit more people to help with the technical fixes, he said. | Indeed, the company was trying to recruit more people to help with the technical fixes, he said. |
| Many UK VW owners are angry that they will receive no compensation as a result of the scandal, unlike customers in the US. | Many UK VW owners are angry that they will receive no compensation as a result of the scandal, unlike customers in the US. |
| But Mr Willis said there was "no legal basis for compensation". He said there was no comparison between the situation in the US and Europe. | |
| The scandal broke in 2015, when it emerged that the carmaker had installed "defeat devices" in its diesel models that allowed them to falsify the results of US pollution tests. | The scandal broke in 2015, when it emerged that the carmaker had installed "defeat devices" in its diesel models that allowed them to falsify the results of US pollution tests. |