German auto giant Volkswagen said Thursday it intended to appeal to the country’s Federal Constitutional Court after losing a legal case linked to the “Dieselgate” scandal.

The Higher Administrative Court in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Thursday ruled against Volkswagen and the Federal Office of Motor Vehicles (KBA), saying that the KBA had illegally authorised Volkswagen’s Golf Plus TDI model in 2016, despite it being fitted with two illicit “defeat devices” which interfered with emissions controls.

Volkswagen said in a statement sent to AFP that the decision was “not final” and that it would “take legal action at the Federal Constitutional Court”.

The company added that as the decision is not final, it does not mean that the KBA will have to take “measures such as remov

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