VW faces huge US lawsuit over pollution cheating

Volkswagen faces potentially huge damages to pay over pollution cheat devices on its diesel-engine cars in a class-action lawsuit filed in a San Francisco court this week. Lawyers consolidated the cases of almost 200 owners of VW, Audi and Porsche diesels equipped with the devices into a suit that accuses the German auto giant of major damages to the environment and to owners of more than a half million of the cars sold in the United States. "From 2009 to 2015, Volkswagen sold and/or leased appr