{"id":151068,"date":"2016-08-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:00:00","slug":"consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports urges higher VW diesel buyback amounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1105421_consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/volkswagen_100307589_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Last month, a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement covering Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars with illegal &#8220;defeat device&#8221; software. That settlement included specific amounts VW must pay owners in buybacks. But just before the public comment period for the settlement ended, Consumer Reports stepped in to advocate for higher&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1105421_consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1105421_consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/volkswagen_100307589_t.gif\" alt=\"2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Last month, a federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement covering Volkswagen 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars with illegal &#8220;defeat device&#8221; software. That settlement included specific amounts VW must pay owners in buybacks. But just before the public comment period for the settlement ended, Consumer Reports stepped in to advocate for higher&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1105421_consumer-reports-urges-higher-vw-diesel-buyback-amounts\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}