Here’s my prediction.
1. An EPA leveraged deal where Volkswagen must fix the problem and pay a fine (three or four billion is my humble guess), OR perform a buy-back/swap...with a gas engine car instead.
2. Oddly, over ninety-percent of the owners will refuse the fix....refuse the swap....and say they won’t participate with the EPA deal.
3. EPA then gets upset over people confronting them....so they order them to accept the swap or pay a yearly fine of $500. More than half of the owners will accept the $500 a year fine and just say OK, but take the EPA to court.
4. When the smoke finally clears....half of the cars are bought back and put on ships...sent to Mexico and sold there to the general public...sending the fumes over the border into the US.
5. VW has billions to pay which infuriates the Germans. So the Germans decide by 2017...an election year in Germany...to sue the US for privacy violations by NSA for 10-billion dollars. As much money as the state attorney generals and EPA think they will get off VW....the Germans will get twice that much in return.
Great prediction!
However I have one correction.
The $500.00 “fine” will be called a “TAX.” That way the USSC Justices will go along with it.
I refer to all of my taxes as fines now in keeping with the changing of the words.
Not Mexico--Cuba. Their cars are 50 or more years old. Commies will love a car that tells a lie.
My prediction is that would not fly in some states, such as Kalifornia, and folks won't be able to re-register their cars.