Volkswagen has reached a deal with U.S. authorities to settle the case over its cheating of diesel emissions tests that would involve it paying each affected customer $5,000, Germany's Die Welt newspaper reported.
Citing unidentified sources close to the negotiations, Die Welt said the agreement would be presented tomorrow to Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, avoiding a trial that was set to start in the summer.
A U.S. federal judge last month gave Volkswagen and regulators until April 21 to agree on a fix for nearly 600,000 diesel cars on U.S. roads implicated by VW's emissions test-rigging scandal.