VW's emissions scandal yields a new cash-for-clunkers program

Buybacks may help boost total U.S. sales over next few years

Scott Nichols was happy with his 2013 Jetta SportWagen TDI and planned to keep it for years. Then it surfaced Volkswagen AG had been breaking emissions laws, souring him and his wife on the brand and thrusting them back into the market for a new Honda.

“We were really disappointed, because it was in fact too good to be true -- this car with really good gas mileage and all the pep that it has,” said Nichols, who works at a private high school east of Los Angeles with his wife. “We researched this, we wanted something that was going to last a long time and now we have to go back and buy another car.”

VW must buy back or fix as many as 562,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. into 2019. read more »

Recall Alert: 2017 Hyundai Elantra, Sonata

2017 Hyundai Elantra sedans manufactured between April 15 and Sept. 13, 2016, and model-year 2017 Sonata sedans manufactured between May 27 and Sept. 16, 2016

The Problem: The end seal for the driver's front airbag inflator may not have been properly installed, possibly resulting in reduced inflation of the airbag and increasing the risk of injury in a crash. read more »