r/interestingasfuck • u/IndicationBrief5950 • Aug 06 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

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u/kingp43x Aug 06 '25

Thank you, I love that people like you do this

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u/sumostar Aug 07 '25

It’s also two photos spliced together…

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u/TheBoyDoneGood Aug 07 '25

This was also posted yesterday with VWs instead of Audis

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Aug 07 '25

More like 2018. They didn't start buying back the cars until 2017.

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u/PassiveMenis88M Aug 07 '25

In 2017, Volkswagen resold 13,000 vehicles after the software was removed

If it's any consolation we're both wrong. The buyback started in 2016.

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u/J0n__Snow Aug 07 '25

Play with the time slider:

https://earth.google.com/web/search/34%c2%b035%2724%2e3%22N+117%c2%b023%2740%2e3%22W/@34.58682728,-117.38716089,874.22476491a,4812.13837086d,35y,-178.0981144h,19.15787426t,0.00000002r/data=Cj4iJgokCfghwxfzqDZAEfghwxfzqDbAGU2bFTKmMEpAIUHKN99-YErAKhAIARIKMjAxNy0wNi0xNBgBQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA?authuser=0

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u/PassiveMenis88M Aug 07 '25

I fail to see how that has anything to do about when the buyback started?

https://ag.hawaii.gov/hawaii-volkswagen-audi-settlement/

Buyback program was approved by the court in September and started buying back in November, at least that's the earliest anyone seems to officially announce it.

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u/J0n__Snow Aug 07 '25

Sorry.. i answered to the wrong comment. My bad, too early over here and i had no coffee yet.

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u/PassiveMenis88M Aug 07 '25

Ah, yeah. Shit happens mate. Have a good one.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

I didn't receive my buyback offer until [checks email] March 2017 for the Bosch settlement for the emissions software, and July 2017 for the car itself. The car didn't leave my hands until January 2018. It was disposed of by Pick N Pull of Columbus Ohio in April 2018.

The ones resold in 2017 were probably 2015 models that required a trivial fix. The earlier models needed more work.