FTC sues Volkswagen over 'deceptive' diesel claims
Source: USA Today
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday filed a four-count complaint against Volkswagen Group in a California federal court, accusing the company of deceptively advertising "clean diesel" vehicles.
The lawsuit compounds the German automaker's troubles in the U.S., where it is already facing a criminal probe and numerous lawsuits after it admitted that it rigged more than half a million vehicles with software to cheat emissions regulations.
The FTC is seeking "permanent injunctive relief, rescission, restitution, the refund of monies paid, disgorgement of ill-gotten monies, and other equitable relief," according to the lawsuit.
The agency filed four civil charges: deceptive representations, deceptive failure to disclose, unfairness and means and instrumentalities.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/03/29/ftc-federal-trade-commission-volkswagen-group-clean-diesel/82376012/
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In an effort to make us VW diesel owners feel like they're doing something, VW sent us a $500 gift card. Well, we used it more than a week ago to buy a small espresso maker, something we'd been wanting for awhile. The machine broke after a day, and now we're waiting for new one...which will be here "any day now," according to the salesperson.
VW's bad juju is contagious. 
