Volkswagen on Monday announced plans to appeal a National Labor Relations Board ruling that upheld a unionization vote among a portion of workers at the German automaker’s lone U.S. assembly plant in Tennessee. The United Auto Workers union criticized the …
On the surface, the new Volkswagen T-Prime Concept GTE crossover concept ostensibly previews a new model to slot in above the Touareg. But there’s more to the T-Prime under its skin. 87 MPGe. 31 miles of electric range. VW’s concept for the Beijing Motor …
Just two years ago, Volkswagen was actively supporting the United Auto Workers in its push to organize the company’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. But in September, the German automaker was plunged into turmoil over revelations that it had equipped almost …
Paul leaves with broken hand, Blazers beat Clippers 98-84 “The agreement with USA regulators is nothing but an intermediate step in a marathon that should stretch out over the next 5-10 years”. The new scrutiny adds to the cloud over the industry, which …
The potential for Daimler’s Mercedes unit to become embroiled in a scandal of the same scope as Volkswagen is probably limited. The writedown of 16.2 billion euros is more than double the 6.7 billion euros the company had previously estimated. The company …
In addition, USA owners of Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC diesels filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the cars are programmed in a way that lets them emit illegal levels of emissions, similar to diesels made by fellow German carmaker Volkswagen.
The scandal has wiped out more than a quarter of Volkswagen’s stock market value, and cost investors millions. Volkswagen’s huge emission cheating scandal has already cost the carmaker about 16 billion euros. The carmaker has said about 500,000 cars had …
Volkswagen has already made clear its intentions to bring cars to India and the line-up is a strong one. We’ve already told you that the company will bring in the new generation of the Passat soon followed by its plug-in hybrid cousin the Passat GTE.
Volkswagen is getting rid of its ‘Das Auto’ slow in favor of a simple, “Volkswagen” (Photo: Volkswagen via YouTube) Volkswagen plans to start its public-relations campaign to try to recover from the diesel-emissions scandal by booting its ad slogan “Das Auto.
The Forward Collision Warning and Autonomous Emergency Braking (Front Assist) system uses a radar sensor to measure the distance of the traffic ahead of the Passat. Front Assist helps to alert the driver of critical front-end collision situations above 19 …