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VOLKSWAGEN has launched a plug-in hybrid version of the Tiguan compact SUV at the Detroit auto show, but most of the interest was around its meeting with the EPA this Wednesday.
In his first appearance before US media since the scandal broke, VW Group chief executive Matthias Mueller said Volkswagen would “offer some solutions and then we will see what the reaction will be,” in Wednesday’s meeting.
In what appears to be back-pedalling from earlier unequivocal admissions of guilt, Mueller stopped short of saying the company lied about the defeat device, or that it cheated consumers.
Volkswagen sales fell nine percent in the USA in 2015, contributing to a total of 9.93 million sales globally for the Volkswagen Group. In Australia, Volkswagen notched up its best year ever, selling 60,225 passenger cars and commercials (up 9.9 percent on 2014). Despite being at the centre of the Dieselgate scandal, the Golf small car led the sales charge, up 15 percent.
The car can be driven by just the front, the rear or all four wheels. It always starts off in EV mode, and can cover up to 32km on electricity alone.
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