Volkswagen to Buy Back Cars, Pay $1 Billion in Emissions Cheating Case

German automaker Volkswagen is expected to tell a U.S. federal court Thursday how it will compensate the owners of cars it sold with software to illegally get past emissions tests. The company is facing a civil lawsuit after admitting in September that it included the cheating software in its diesel cars and sport utility vehicles sold since the 2009 model year. Tests showed those cars emitted up to 40 times the permissible pollutants when driven. The details of Volkswagen's...

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