Shocking images have emerged showing lines of cars stretching out as far as the eye can see in the Californian desert after Volkswagen was forced to buy back 350,000 cars for $7.4billion over the diesel scandal. Storage lots include a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, a former Minnesota paper mill and the desert site near Victorville, California. Reacquired Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sit in a desert graveyard near Victorville, California, March 28Reacquired Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sit in a desert graveyard near Victorville, CaliforniaThe court fling said through Dec. 31 Volkswagen had reacquired 335,000 diesel vehicles, resold 13,000 and destroyed about 28,000 vehicles. Reacquired Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sit in a desert graveyard near Victorville, CaliforniaReacquired Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sit in a desert graveyard near Victorville, CaliforniaReacquired Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sit in a desert graveyard near Victorville, CaliforniaConcerns over nitrogen dioxide emissions have grown since Volkswagen was found in September 2015 to have cheated air pollution tests for 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide. Regulators in 2015 discovered that Volkswagen diesel cars marketed as clean in fact spewed up to 40 times the permissible limits of nitrogen oxide during normal driving, but this was hidden during emissions testing.

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2018 14:34 UTC