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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sam Barker

Volkswagen paying out £2,120 to 91,000 drivers over 'dieselgate' emissions cheating

Carmaker Volkswagen is paying £193million to 91,000 drivers who had emissions-cheating software installed in their cars.

The out-of-court settlement means the average driver will get £2,120.

The issue, dubbed "dieselgate", is that many diesel cars were made with "defeat devices", often in the form of software code, that cheated emissions tests.

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