There are more than 350 thousand diesel cars in the huge Volkswagen and Audi parking lots
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- There are more than 350 thousand diesel cars in the huge Volkswagen and Audi parking lots
It is incredible, but VW bought more than 350,000 American diesel cars from their owners and now stores them in special parking lots, maintaining them in working order.
Volkswagen's expenses on buying up cars
Volkswagen AG spent almost 7.5 billion US dollars on buying up diesel cars due to the scandal about understated emissions. The company rented unimaginable areas, and the most unusual places for creating parking lots were chosen. These are not settling ponds, not a cemetery for scrapped cars, but completely controlled territories. All
cars are maintained in good condition and are being prepared for resale after all issues with the US government are settled, Volkswagen representatives said. The corporation spent over 25 billion dollars on buying up all the cars, buying them from private and corporate owners, buying them from dealers from different states. Only a small part of them has already been recycled - only 13,000 cars. A little more - 28,000 were disposed of.
Where are the serviceable models waiting for their time?
The concern has chosen the most unusual places to store a huge number of working cars, such as:
- the territory of a former paper mill in Minnesota;
- an abandoned suburban stadium in Detroit;
- the most unusual storage can be called a landfill in the desert near Victorville in California. This is the largest parking lot of new cars in the world - neat rows store tens of thousands of practically new diesel VW and Audi.
Volkswagen Corporation representative Jean Ginivan said that very soon all the cars could end up in American showrooms or be exported to markets in other countries. Perhaps in the near future we will see an influx of American-made VW and Audi, because in Western European countries 'diesels' are not particularly popular, but there really are a lot of cars.
