Volkswagen Group management reduces the range of possible car model versions and their sets to make up the losses from the emission scandal. This way the German manufacturer hopes to save 1.9 billion euros.
The top manager of Volkswagen, Bernd Osterloh, said that this decision, reduce labor costs and complexity, was taken for a long time. Osterloh said reducing the variety of car models and options could enable Volkswagen to "take out costs there on a large scale" without forcing the company to cut jobs, Bloomberg reported. VW has one major U.S. factory, located in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Volkswagen faces financial fallout from a multi-front scandal involving millions of the company's cars and several of its brands. The company has admitted that software it installed on up to 11 million vehicles worldwide enabled those with 1.2-liter, 1.6-liter and 2-liter diesel engines to defeat clean-air standards testing.