behave ethically and therefore always motorists damages in principle and that's important because fox wagner was arguing that it should have to pay anything the argument as this is that if european authorities. find enough wrong with the cars to pull them off the roads then they shouldn't have to buy them back now today's ruling shows that the highest civil court and the land does not agree it awarded the plaintiff the price of his car adjusted for depreciation plus interests now because the court so will use about ruling because lower courts in this country will use that ruling as a basis for their own rulings it puts thought thousands of other cases that are similar to this one on better footing and as a result however brant there are 2400000 affected drivers in this country and not all of the cases are clear cut some of them sued their dealerships and instead of buying some of the vehicles even after the scandal broke some of them bought their vehicles far enough in the past the statue of limitations has run out but still despite these open questions this is definitely a victory for the c