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Volkswagen promises to roll out 2 new models every year in USA
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Volkswagen plans to offer two new U.S. models every year for the foreseeable future and double the length of its warranties as it tries to attract new customers and recover from a 2015 emissions-cheating scandal.Hinrich Woebcken, the German automaker’s top U.S. executive, announced the main planks of VW’s comeback plan Friday at an event in a dealership in Dearborn, Michigan.VW is still dealing with the emissions scandal, in which it used sophisticated software to activate pollution controls during government tests and turn them off while the cars were being driven on roads. The company has agreed to more than $20 billion in fines and civil settlements over the scandal.Earlier Friday in Germany, VW said that it expects to take additional charges of about $2.9 billion (2.5 billion euros) in the third quarter to cover costs of buying back or retrofitting 2-liter diesel vehicles that were part of the civil settlements.So far this year, the VW brand’s U.S. sales are up 6.4 percent while the U.S. market has shrunk by 2.7 percent, according to Autodata Corp. Woebcken attributes the increase the introduction of two new SUVs: the full-size Atlas and the compact Tiguan.