Volkswagen's car 'graveyard' in California - BBC News

Volkswagen has spent more than $7.4 billion (£5.2 bn) to buy back around 350,000 diesel vehicles after the emissions scandal.

They're being stored at sites across the US.

[Gwiedert]

1000 years later they dig these up thinking we had a major traffic jam in the middle of the dessert

[koninkrijkdernederlanden]

I think the upcoming Hollywood movies are going to contain a lot of Volkswagens...

[starkistuna]

They should make a Pyramid with them to puzzle the hell out of people in the year 4216 AD

[stevemygoodman]

If you believe the “routinely maintained” part, I have a bridge I want to sell you.

It looks like a football game parking lot but everyone showed up in the same 4 cars.

[patrickfichter]

I’ve bought two TDIs that were in storage at one of VW’s lots. The cars were both basically mint condition with extremely low miles. Can’t beat a deal like that!

[fortune]

In europe, car owners were finding themselves in reduced second-hand value and no apology. Uncertain consumer protection here!
All the honors of the US legislators!

[vosko]

Luckily my Jetta was spared from this grave yard. I'm some of the very few that kept mine. And I plan to keep it for a long time!

[blackhawkedu]

I am sure that more car manufacturers cheat.

[dobarlos]

These are all perfect cars shame on the Ridiculous laws in USA

[Greg]

Creating new cars to replace these produced a whole lot more CO2 than the excess those cars would have put off. From what I understand, the cars were good, they still would pass emissions, they just can't match the advertised numbers.

[ptgms]

The VW Passat is one of the best cars I've owned.

[leovigild_]

It's pretty crazy to look at. It's like those fields of cars you see at ports, except those are less depressing because they're on their way to being delivered and sold to people. This is vehicle limbo.

[rishabhgoyal]

Just sell them to countries where safety standards are lower

[crosswalk]

Such bs. Put them on the road! 50 mpg!

[peacelove]

Sell them for 5k each VW will make 1.7 billion plus more advertising revenue 350k cars on roads people subconsciously think VW is great car!

[JohnBoehners]

A big rip off. The top guys who ok'd the polluting TDI's run free with massive stock bonuses.
The buyers got ripped off and were offered low Blue Book +$5K bonus. Totally sucked. The buyers should have been able to receive back 100% of what they paid, plus the bonus!

Nobody would have bought these cars knowingly, so why should it have been the buyers who took it in the shorts?

[JohnnyAloha]

My first thought is how unimaginative we’ve become as car buyers; almost every car there is a shade of grey-silver or white. No one buys interesting colors anymore!

[mikecorleone]

They ain’t getting their hands on my tdi... nope I’ll keep my HP thanks

[wagneryardstep]

That would be one damn good documentary "The maintenance guy"

[iamdmc]

I'm loving the blade runner music in this vid