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Volkswagen Allegedly Openly Violated EPA Diesel Laws, Could Face Billions in...
-Volkswagen will have to recall 482,000 cars in the U.S. after it seemingly deliberately violated Clean Air Act emissions laws on its TDI diesel models, according to a report from the Environmental...
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VW Issues Stop-Sale Order for All 2.0-liter TDI Diesel Models
-You can’t buy a new Volkswagen with the 2.0-liter TDI diesel engine right now, as the company has issued a stop-sale for its four-cylinder diesels. This comes in response to the EPA having caught VW...
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VW CEO Issues Statement on EPA Emissions Violations, Apologizes for Wrongdoing
-In response to allegations that it skirted EPA emissions standards using some software trickery in its diesel four-cylinder models, a serious offense that could land Volkswagen billions in fines, the...
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How Volkswagen Got Busted for Skirting EPA Diesel Emissions Standards
-When the International Council on Clean Transportation began to look into discrepancies in the emissions of several Volkswagen diesel vehicles in early 2014, it was with the sincerest of intentions....
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Department of Justice Reportedly Opening Criminal Investigation into...
-Volkswagen’s bloody Monday continues, for after seeing its stock value plummet, issuing a stop-sale on all 2015 model-year 2.0-liter TDI diesel models, and facing down the possibility of up to $18...
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Volkswagen’s U.S. CEO Admits: “We Totally Screwed Up”
-Yesterday’s launch of the U.S.-spec 2016 Volkswagen Passat was supposed to be a celebration for Volkswagen of America. Taking place in a trendy waterfront warehouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
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The VW Diesel Scandal Is Much Worse than a Recall—It’s Outright Deceit
-Most of the time, media test cars are distinguished only by a license plate that might bear a discreet “manufacturer” tag. Audi diesels, though, are a different matter. Whether a Q7 or an A3, the...
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VW Chairman Martin Winterkorn Releases Video Addressing Scandal, Is Not...
-Volkswagen Group chairman Martin Winterkorn has released a video statement in response to the emissions-cheating scandal involving the company’s 2.0-liter TDI diesel engines, and although he once...
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Volkswagen Offering Payments to U.S. Dealers in the Wake of Diesel Emissions...
-While the firestorm engulfing Volkswagen over its diesel-engine emissions-test cheating will undoubtedly reverberate throughout the automaker’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, the crisis is also...
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Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn Resigns in Wake of Diesel Emissions...
-Volkswagen’s diesel-emissions cheating scandal has claimed its first victim: CEO Martin Winterkorn has announced that he is resigning.-Winterkorn had previously released a video apologizing for the...
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Oh Law’d! Firms Trip Over One Another Filing Class-Action Lawsuits Against VW
-Law firms, likely salivating since news of Volkswagen’s diesel-emissions deceit first broke last week, have begun firing a barrage of class-action lawsuits against the company. This completely...
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Report: BMW X3 Diesel Emissions Also Exceed Legal Limit
-Volkswagen’s unfolding diesel-emissions crisis may prove to involve other automakers, as well: German magazine Autobild reports that a German-market, diesel-powered BMW X3 xDrive20d put out 11 times...
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Diesel Cheating Scandal Claiming Top Engineers at VW
-At the time of Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn’s departure, the company said, “The Executive Committee is expecting further personnel consequences in the next days.” Now we’re getting the first...
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Porsche CEO Matthias Müller to Become VW Group CEO
-Attempting to regain control of a situation that has entirely spun out of control, Volkswagen’s Supervisory Board—led by labor union executive Berthold Huber—will appoint Porsche CEO Matthias Müller...
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Won’t Get Fooled Again? EPA Says It Will Change Up Its Emissions Testing
-Lost in all the invective being cast toward Volkswagen for its emissions-test cheating is the sad fact that the company was able to get away with it for six years without getting caught. It kind of...
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Germany Gives Volkswagen 10 Days to Present Solution to Diesel-Emissions Problem
-Germany is coming down hard on its biggest carmaker over the diesel-emissions crisis, giving Volkswagen just over a week to come up with a fix to a problem eight years in the making.-Yesterday, VW...
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VW Sets Up Website to Assist Owners of Cheaty TDI Diesel Models
-Volkswagen of America has set up a website, vwdieselinfo.com, to keep owners and other interested observers updated with the latest information about its emissions-cheating TDI models.-The homepage...
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Audi Admits 2.1 Million of Its Diesel Cars Had Software Cheat
-More than two million of the 11 million cars fitted globally with Volkswagen’s emissions-cheating software code were Audis. The Volkswagen Group’s premium brand today admitted that 2.1 million of its...
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Report: Bosch Warned VW About Diesel Emissions Cheating in 2007
The main question surrounding Volkswagen’s emissions-cheating TDI program is: How many people knew about the automaker’s plans? According to a German newspaper, auto-industry supplier Bosch had a hunch...
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VW Diesel Fix To Be Announced in a “Few Days”
-With just eight days left for Volkswagen to present a solution to its emissions-cheating diesels, the automaker has announced that it has come up with a “service procedure” aimed to put the 11 million...
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