A group of Kia and Hyundai owners have filed a class-action lawsuit against the automakers over an alleged defect that could, and has, caused noncollision fires.
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers, the obvious winners from the proposal, balked.
Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker's emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015.
Volkswagen's strategy chief said on Tuesday the German carmaker's core brand will develop its final generation of vehicles using combustion engine technology in 2026.
Several European countries have either ordered vehicle recalls by carmakers over diesel emissions cheating or plan to do so, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported without citing sources.
While Volkswagen's diesel emission fiasco has died down in the United States, costing the automaker billions before going achieving dormancy, the legal fires burn brightly in Europe.
Volkswagen and an independent monitoring team still have "a lot of work to do" before the company's compliance procedures can be certified after a $27 billion global emissions cheating scandal, Larry Thompson, an independent compliance auditor, said on Thursday.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it is investigating whether General Motors Co (GM.N), the largest U.S. automaker, should recall an additional 1.7 million sport utility vehicles due to windshield wiper failures.
Volkswagen goofed on the emissions fix for its outlaw 2.0 liter diesel engines in its 2012 - 14 Passat models, The Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
Autonomous vehicle developers are pursuing different strategies and technologies — and making different claims, in different ways, about their systems.
The automaker posted an EBIT (earnings before taxes and interest) profit margin of 10.2 percent in the region, helped by heady Jeep and Ram sales and the 2016 decision to cull its unpopular small cars.
Porsche SE, the holding controlling Volkswagen, violated shareholder disclosure laws and must pay €47 million to investors for not informing them soon enough about the emissions fraud.