New car dealers don't really "own" their vehicles. They can be returned. As always... only the lawyers will come out ahead... Cheers, Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Stuart MacMillan Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:31 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: NVC Re: VW, honour, and culture It could be worse, you could be a US VW dealer and own hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of unsaleable vehicles. And, have no new diesels to sell.
Yesterday I was at my local VW dealer (they still have some Vanagon parts!) and there was a woman in for servicing her Passat TDI, which she loved, but was angry that she paid a $2000 premium over gas, figuring her mileage and performance were going to go down after the fix that's coming. I don't blame her, and I wonder if she'll want the car at all with lower performance and mileage after the fix that's coming. The class action suits are forming. Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Schwaia Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:00 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: NVC Re: VW, honour, and culture I'm pretty sure a VW buy-back program will be coming along real soon... Cheers, Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jack Botts Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 5:58 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: NVC Re: VW, honour, and culture Here's how it affects Joe-VW-owner. I bought a used 2014 Passat TDI SE about 4 months ago. I sold a LOVED 2005 Jetta TDI Wagon (so, before the current VW diesel shenanigans). If I needed to sell this Passat for, who knows why -- illness, stock losses, I'm-not-sure-I-am-excited-about-automatic-for-the-first-time-since-1965 -- where does this leave ME? No one will buy it, VW won't buy it, I can't trade it. Between my son and me, we have owned about 14 Volkswagens. I have friends who are VW enthusiasts. We thought that there was something more than regular car ownership associated with VW ownership. What we thought was a different car company turns out to be just another greedy, short-sighted, dishonest modern huge business. If the (3rd '86 Weekender) Vanagon didn't meet our needs so perfectly, I would sell it tomorrow and skedaddle from vanagon.com and anything VW-related. Jack Botts Columbia, MO '86 Vanagon Westfalia Weekender '14 Passat SE TDI = |
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