It’s likely not unique that a Volkswagen dealership would turn a 2015 model manufactured by its parent automaker. But for the stores that have one of the roughly 12,000 diesel units now cleared by regulators to be retailed, what will be unique about those deliveries is they will be recorded as a new-vehicle sale, not used or even certified pre-owned.

Auto Remarketing obtained confirmation from VW on Thursday about that permission the automaker recently received.

“Volkswagen has been working with the Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board on a program to enable our VW and Audi-branded franchise dealers to sell 2.0L TDI vehicles with Generation 3 engines once they have received approved emissions modifications,” the automaker said.

“This is in accordance with the terms of our 2.0L TDI settlements in the United States,” the OEM continued. “We are still finalizing the details of this program and will provide more information on its implementation at the appropriate time.”

So the roughly 12,000 vehicles that have been sitting in inventory since the entire “Dieselgate” matter began more than 18 months ago now might be delivered if that dealership can find a buyer.

And with regard to the diesel units previous owners might have returned back to the automaker, VW said in the same statement sent on Thursday, “If they are customer buybacks that are then modified, they will be sold as pre-owned.”

Along with finding a solution for those units with 2.0L TDI engines, back on Feb. 1, VW announced that it had reached proposed agreements to resolve outstanding civil claims regarding approximately 78,000 affected 3.0L TDI V6 diesel engine vehicles in the United States.

“With the court-approved 2.0L TDI program well under way and now this proposed 3.0L TDI program, all of our customers with affected vehicles in the United States will have a resolution available to them. We will continue to work to earn back the trust of all our stakeholders and thank our customers and dealers for their continued patience as this process moves forward,” Hinrich Woebcken, president and chief executive officer of Volkswagen Group of America, said in a news release at the time of the announcement.

It’s been quite a journey for the automaker since the controversy surfaced in September 2015.

Along with vehicle buybacks, Volkswagen on Jan. 11 agreed to pay penalties and fines totaling $4.3 billion to resolve criminal and federal environmental and other civil claims against the company relating to the diesel matter as well as to roll out a series of measures to further strengthen its compliance and control systems, including the appointment of an independent monitor for a period of three years.

And then on Thursday, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman announced that Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, as well as their American subsidiaries, have agreed to pay more than $157 million to 10 states — including $32.5 million to the Empire State — to settle the environmental lawsuits first filed last summer by New York and Massachusetts challenging the companies’ secret use of unlawful “defeat device” software in their diesel vehicles.

The settlement marks the first time New York and the other settling states — all of which have adopted California’s stringent vehicle emission standards — have secured environmental penalties from a manufacturer under their own state auto emissions laws.