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The Stuttgart-based car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has installed inadmissible defeat devices in certain diesel cars. This is the result of a model declaratory judgment by the Higher Regional Court of...

Mercedes customers achieved a partial success on Thursday when the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court established that unauthorized defeat devices were installed in certain diesel vehicles from the German car manufacturer. The finding appeared in a so-called model declaratory judgement announced by the presiding judge, Thilo Rebmann, in the south-western German city, where Mercedes is headquartered. This means that the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) has partially prevailed with