Well, it took three years but it looks like the repercussions of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating is finally reaching the very top of the company’s ladders. Rupert Stadler, CEO of VW’s luxury brand Audi, has been arrested in Germany as part of the still-ongoing investigation into who was truly accountable for the decision to install …
You’ve really got to hand it to Volkswagen. After an embarrassing couple of years as the auto industry’s punching bag following the absolutely shameful “Dieselgate” scandal, VW has been doing everything in its power to look forward rather than back. To that end it’s introduced a seemingly endless number of futuristic concept cars which ditch …
Volkswagen, fresh off of its incredibly embarrassing dieselgate controversy, would like to do everything possible to make you forget that it tried to cheat emissions regulations and sent literally millions of vehicles out into the world that were incredibly dirty. To that end, the company is pushing its electric vehicle efforts hard as of late, …
It’s been nearly two years since news of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating first broke, and the months since have been filled with recalls, buybacks, and lots and lots of money flying out of the company’s bank account and into the pockets of affected customers. But despite the company’s swift and appropriate response to being caught …
Volkswagen’s buyback of its emissions-cheating diesel vehicles is still ongoing, and while the whole incident has largely disappeared from the headlines, the process of actually dealing with all those polluting cars is still a very real problem for the company. It’s easy to imagine the cars ending up in a big warehouse, being parted out …
Self-driving car concepts are a dime a dozen these days, coming from every corner of the automotive industry and manufacturer. Volkswagen has shown off a couple of its own in the past, but at the Geneva Motor Show this week the company is giving us a glimpse at yet another, and it’s a bit different …
Last month, a trend began to develop among VW owners involved in the “Dieselgate” buyback program. Rather than simply returning the vehicles for the lump sum payment they were due, some of the more disgruntled former VW customers decided to strip their vehicles of many of their resellable bits in an effort to make some extra …
Volkswagen was brave when it decided to cheat on its diesel emissions testing and leave thousands of buyers with cars that were far less earth friendly than they claimed, and now one such owner is being just as bold in his quest for revenge. Joe Mayer, a car salesman (!) from Cincinnati, has decided to get …
Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating woes just refuse to die down, and now that buyers who ended up with the vehicles are able to sell them back to the company, things are getting very interesting. Some particularly disgruntled VW customers have taken the somewhat odd but totally understandable step of completely stripping their diesel cars before …
Volkswagen is still dealing with the fallout from Dieselgate, the years-long plot to cheat the EPA’s emission tests. While the company is facing serious financial penalties, one engineer with a crucial role in the plan has pleaded guilty to much more serious charges. James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today to his role …
