Audi buy-back illegal US models they cannot fix

Audi will buy back 25,000 diesel engine cars in the US to compensate owners whose cars do not meet exhaust emission standards, reported German weeklyDer Spiegel. 

Audi representatives are in talks with U.S. authorities about fixing 85,000 cars that had engines which were passed in doctored exhaust emissions tests and says it cannot rectify the 25,000 models it will now buy back instead.

There has been protracted private action against VW Group brands in the US and it has already agree multi-million-dollar compensation packages.

But the same deal is not being given to many European and British owners of similar cars and the UK Government is now considering whether to take legal action against the brands in Britain.