A Florida woman is suing Volkswagen and car dealer AutoNation for $5 million over charges that Volkswagen rigged some vehicles to hide the level of emissions they produce.
 
Palm Beach County resident Lisa Lowrance has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida claiming she spent nearly $27,000 on a 2013 VW Beetle that the AutoNation Volkswagen Delray dealership advertised as “clean diesel.” According to news reports, Lowrance said she would not have purchased the car had she known about VW’s “hoax” to install devices in its cars that limited emissions during government testing but not during normal driving.
 
Scott Schlesinger, Lowrance’s attorney, said in a statement. “Ms. Lowrance thought she was buying an eco-friendly car, when in fact she was unwittingly contributing to unlawful carbon emissions at up to 40 times the pollution allowed.”
 
“This suit [against AutoNation] has no merit,” Marc Cannon, chief marketing officer for Fort Lauderdale-based AutoNation, said. “We had no idea that any of this was transpiring at Volkswagen. We learned about this just like everybody else did through the media.”
 
—Source: miamiherald.com