VW to Sound Out Settlement in German Car-Owners’ Mass Lawsuit

  • Consumer group VZBV and carmaker to talk amid diesel claim
  • Court had pushed both sides to consider an agreement

The updated Volkswagen AG logo sits on the automaker's headquarters in Wolfsburg.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.

Volkswagen AG and German consumer group VZBV agreed to settlement talks in a court case involving hundreds of thousands of drivers who claim that their diesel cars lost value in the wake of the emission-cheating scandal.