German car giant Volkswagen has been ordered to explain to the Federal Court why it installed engine management software that led to an emissions cheating scandal and a class action by Australian motorists.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn, which is leading a consumer class action on behalf of about 100,000 motorists, says Volkswagen and its Audi and Skoda subsidiaries must file a response by October 16 - two weeks before a first stage trial of the class action and a claim by the consumer watchdog that the manufacturers misled motorists.
"It is astonishing that these companies which pride themselves on truth in engineering could work so extensively, over such a long period, to develop and implement deceptive software so as to bolster sales of overly polluting diesel vehicles rather developing real ways of genuinely reducing dangerous diesel emissions," Maurice Blackburn class action lawyer Jason Geisker said.
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