Volkswagen is contesting demands for British motorists to be given compensationFabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Volkswagen has apparently admitted that almost 1.2 million cars caught up in the emissions scandal should not have been approved for British roads.
Documents obtained by The Times show that the company admitted that vehicles “do not meet the regulatory requirements” for registration under European emissions rules. The comments appear in recall notification issued to the government in the weeks after the scandal over the company cheating in emissions tests broke.
Lawyers for VW owners said that it showed that the company knew that these cars “should never have been sold in the first place”.
Volkswagen, which is contesting demands for British motorists to be given compensation, said that any suggestion that the cars were on the road illegally was wrong. It said that the…
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