Your Rigged VW Will Get Fixed Sometime Between Now and 2048
- At current pace, German recall would take 32 years to complete
- Volkswagen plans to ramp up repairs with Passat in March
Pipework sits on the tubocharged direct injection diesel engine.
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Volkswagen AG will need to speed up its recall of rigged diesel engines in Germany dramatically to finish within a year as planned, because at the current rate the process won’t be done before 2048.
Since starting repairs to 2.4 million affected cars in its home country three weeks ago, Volkswagen has fixed 4,300 vehicles. That’s a rate of about 1,400 autos a week, when more than 46,000 would need to be processed weekly for the company to finish within a year.