Italian appeals court accepts class action against VW - consumer group

An appeals court in Venice has accepted a class action suit against Volkswagen over allegations the German carmaker understated the fuel consumption of its Golf model, an Italian consumer group said on Friday. Consumer group Altroconsumo filed the class action in September 2014, long before Volkswagen was engulfed in a scandal over its cheating of diesel emissions tests and before it admitted last year to understating fuel consumption.