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  Volkswagen CEO says financial woes are manageable

  24 November 2015 / 5 comments

  Despite the immense financial and technical resources required by Volkswagen to sort out its ongoing emissions discrepancies, the German car maker claims that the costs are manageable, and won’t bankrupt the company any time soon. […]

   

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  VW won’t compensate European owners of diesel cars with “defeat devices,” will recall them instead – report

  23 November 2015 / 10 comments

  Own a Volkswagen diesel engine fitted with so-called “defeat devices” and want to be compensated in a similar fashion to North American buyers, but live on the other side of the Atlantic? Well, it’s bad […]

   

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  VW dieselgate scandal – 3.0 TDI V6 contains defeat device, 2009 through 2016 model years affected

  23 November 2015 / 16 comments

  The dieselgate scandal just got bigger after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received confirmation from Volkswagen and Audi officials that its 3.0 litre TDI V6 engine contains a defeat device designed to foil emissions […]

   

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  Volatile times for VW Group, as it reduces 2016 capex

  23 November 2015 / 3 comments

  It’s troubling times for the Volkswagen Group, brought about by the emissions cheating case that’s widening. Fixing the affected cars and its reputation costs money, and the group has announced that it is aligning investment […]

   

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  Volkswagen submits “defeat device” fix for evaluation

  19 November 2015 / 9 comments

  Volkswagen has submitted a plan to the German authorities to rectify its 1.6 litre EA 189-powered vehicles currently in the market. The four-cylinder diesel plant has been known to feature the brand’s infamous cheating software […]

   

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  Volkswagen Beetle Dune revealed – Bug gets rugged

  17 November 2015 / 8 comments

  First introduced as a concept at the 2014 NAIAS in Detroit, the Volkswagen Beetle Dune now makes its official global debut ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show. Designed to be reminiscent of the Baja […]

   

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  Volkswagen lists MY2016 vehicles with false CO2 emissions data – 430k Audi, SEAT, Skoda, VW models

  17 November 2015 / 19 comments

  The Volkswagen Group has released information regarding all the vehicles on sale currently affected by the carbon dioxide emissions scandal – separate from the larger “dieselgate” involving so-called “defeat devices” used to cheat US Environmental […]

   

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  Volkswagen to buy back cars with CO2 irregularities

  17 November 2015 / 12 comments

  To help ease some of its customers’ woes, it has been reported that Volkswagen may offer to buy back some of its European-market vehicles known to be affected by CO2 emissions irregularities. Yesterday, Volkswagen confirmed […]

   

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  EPA expands on-road emissions testing for diesel cars

  9 November 2015 / 6 comments

  The dieselgate scandal has certainly called into question the credibility of reported vehicle emissions, which is why the the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will significantly expand its on-the-road emissions tests to cover all […]

   

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  Volkswagen engineers overinflated tyres, added diesel to engine oil to cheat CO2 emissions testing – report

  9 November 2015 / 19 comments

  Another one to add to the “dieselgate” saga – after Volkswagen admitted that up to 800,000 vehicles in Europe have been provided with falsified carbon dioxide emissions data, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag now reports […]

   

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  Volkswagen to pay up for CO2 tax difference in Europe

  9 November 2015 / 2 comments

  According to a Reuters report, Volkswagen has offered to pay for the additional vehicle taxes faced by its European customers, following the company’s dieselgate scandal which illegally falsified CO2 emissions claims globally. In a letter […]

   

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  Volkswagen Group design chief Walter de Silva retires

  9 November 2015 / 8 comments

  Volkswagen has announced that its Head of Group Design, Walter Maria de Silva, will retire from his position come the end of November (2015). The 64-year-old Italian will, however, maintain some ties with the company […]

   

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  Germany to retest all Volkswagen diesel, petrol cars

  6 November 2015 / 10 comments

  Short of the recent Takata scandal, there’s very little going on in the automotive world that can rival the scale of the ongoing ‘Dieselgate‘ scandal that has plagued German carmaker, Volkswagen. In the latest development […]

   

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  SPIED: Volkswagen Passat B8 spotted in Pekan again

  5 November 2015 / 19 comments

  Here it is again, the Volkswagen Passat B8. It was last spotted in Kerteh, and now again in Pekan, thanks to reader Amirul Hazmi. Last we heard, the B8-generation Passat is slated for a local […]

   

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  Volkswagen dieselgate scandal – 3.0 TDI V6 in VW, Audi and Porsche models possibly affected

  3 November 2015 / 12 comments

  It appears that the Volkswagen Group’s dieselgate woes continue to deepen. This is because the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently issued a second notice of violation (NOV) of the country’s Clean Air […]

   

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