They were going to have good fuel economy. They were going to have good Engine Performance. Can you guarantee that any fix you make to the vehicles doesnt affect fuel economy or fuel performance are both . At this time if we correct the knox the emission standards, the customer will get the mpg. Thats my current understanding of whether the full performance of the car, this is something they said in germany, maybe top speed that might be one or two Miles Per Hour might be missing but this is of course something which we will share with the agencies that current understanding is that the customer will keep the miles per gallon. The concern i have is when you buy one of these cars you are relying not on only the Commission Says that the performance is good. I think you get to the issue of damages. In other words, if im an owner and the fix doesnt achieve good performance, good fuel mileage then im going to expect to become a sit in somewhat if thats not the case. I just remain concerned
Get bought back or fixed after a certain number of months . We certainly will be encouraging consumers to i understand that. Youll get the word out as best you can. Thats right. But i dont anticipate epa going after individuals. But it is a possibility . I dont think that is a possibility. Let me tell you one of my concerns is, and doesnt have anything to do with you all, its a restore rhetorical quest yesterday we had an epa official in and the cap and trade scheme which they kept resisting calling it that, but it talks about putting a limit on emissions and then being able to make trades, so it sounds like cap and trade. And what was interesting about it, i had a list of quotes from lisa jackson in 2011, Gina Mccarthy 2011, 2013, 2014, said they were never going to consider and in fact it wasnt allowed under the law to do a cap and trade scheme and then im looking at something that is strict cap and trade deem. So im a little concerned not for me. Ill do what i need do to make my car
Could members of the media please move out of our way so we can begin the hearing . Mr. Horn, you can sit in that chair. Thank you. Thank you and good morning. We now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee on volkswagen emissions cheating allegations, initial questions. Let me start off by saying my first car was a volkswagen. It was a 76 beetle. I learned a lot about cars. I could take that thing apart continued to work. I did all the maintenance myself because volkswagen had a legacy as the peoples car to be people friendly. I loved that car. Loved it a lot. Not so much as to call it brad, but i loved that car. But i trusted the car to get me around. I trusted volkswagen would continue to build a reliable car. That word trust alone as you know is the key factor in Building Customer loyalty. That trust is what helped build volkswagen because we believed its company looked out for customers first. Then three weeks ago car owners around the world were shock
And inserted control systems. And we know that during normal road use, the controls were reduced. And the car for producing up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide standards. Owed by we know half a million cars in the u. S. Might be affected by this. Mr. Horn, im glad you came to testify here. While we know all of the things i just talked about, theres a lot more things we do not know. And we need answers for them. For example, volkswagen has not revealed how the device affects the engine. White was installed, and how it was able to evade the tests . You have not revealed when and how the engines equipped will be fixed. Whether the fix will affect fuel economy or performance of the vehicle. You have not revealed what volkswagen told regulators over the last year as epa and the california board were trying to figure out why the emissions were out of compliance. You have not revealed whether the voluntary recalls that volkswagen set in place in 2014 were millemerely a ruse. Were they trying t
They dont have answers about when or how their car will be fixed or what kind of car they will be left with. Earlier this week i visited a volkswagen dealership in denver. I saw the control and equipment on the vehicles firsthand. These cards account from us 25 of the sales at that particular dealership, and a significant percent of sales in colorado and across the country. Now because they cannot sell them, these cards are sitting on the lot. Say, it isrman, you a small percentage of cars on the road in the u. S. , it is a tremendous Economic Impact to the steelers and also to be consumers who dont know what is going to happen to their car. That is the key answer im looking for today. What do we do moving forward. This subcommittee has been here before. In the last 15 years, we have had ford, firestone, gm and more. We were able to get information from all these committees help us understand what happened. Most importantly, we used information to chart a path forward and help consumer