San Francisco — A US jury in California has awarded the drivers of four Volkswagen vehicles a total of $100,000 as punitive damages for being sold diesel vehicles that emitted excess pollution, though the amount awarded was a fraction of what was sought.
The drivers, three individuals and a couple, are among about 350 people who opted out of a $10bn US class-action settlement with the German carmaker which agreed to buy back hundreds of thousands of its cars after it admitted to using illegal software to cheat US pollution tests in September 2015...
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